Texmaker and TeXstudio ⇒ paragraph and spacing

[omkardpd]

Hi,

I use \\ at the end of the statement when I want to end paragraph 1 and start paragraph 2. I assume \\ leaves one extra line between any two paragraphs. Now, if paragraph 2 is starting on new page, then also it is leaving this extra space between paragraph 1 and paragraph 2. So I have to remove \\ from the paragraph 1. But why do I have to check for each paragraph if it is staring on each of the new page? Do we have some automated technique by which Latex itself will understand if a paragraph is starting on a new page, then there is no need to leave the extra line space between paragraphs? Is there any specific command to adjust such things?

Thank you,

Omkar

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Omkar,

don't use \\ for extra lines between paragraphs. Use \parskip instead, like

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\setlength{\parskip}{\baselineskip}

or

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\addtolength{\parskip}{\baselineskip}

or a different length instead of \baselinskip, maybe with glue that has stretch and shrink value.

Stefan