Text Formatting ⇒ Disabling indentation in particular section

[radpl]

I need to disable indentation in only one section of my document (subsection, to be specific). How can I do that?

Default indentation is provided by indentfirst package.

[frabjous]

If it's just the first paragraph of that one section you don't want indented, then just use \noindent at the beginning of the paragraph.

If you don't want any identation throughout the (sub)section, then you could try something like this:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{indentfirst}
\usepackage{lipsum}% for generating filler text
\begin{document}

\section{A section}
\lipsum[1-5]

\section{Another section}
\lipsum[6-10]

\section{Unindented section}
\newlength{\oldparindent}%
\setlength{\oldparindent}{\parindent}% save old indentation amount
\setlength{\parindent}{0em}% zero out indentation
\lipsum[11-15]

\setlength{\parindent}{\oldparindent}% return to old indent amount
\section{A Final Section}
\lipsum[16-20]
\end{document}

If that doesn't do what you want, then I think a minimal working example is in order.

[radpl]

frabjous, your example perfectly works for me. Thank you very much!

[localghost]

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