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sabahmed
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Paragraph Indentation stops

Post by sabahmed »

Hi all,

I am using

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\indent this is my new paragraph
command to give tab to first line of paragraph. it is working fine in beginning of report but I don't know what happened. The \indent command is not showing any effect to the rest of document.
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maxmax
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Paragraph Indentation stops

Post by maxmax »

Hi,
have you set

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\setlength{\parindent}{0mm}
or something like that in your file? Because that would cause \indent to indent 0mm ;)

LaTeX automaticly indents paragraphs when you set

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\setlength{\parindent}{1cm}
or whatever length you like.
sabahmed
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Paragraph Indentation stops

Post by sabahmed »

Hi dear max thanks alot for ur kind reply. Although i havent set length but in the first two chapters of my report i am getting desired results i.e. indented paragraph but as i include algorithms under figure index discussed in http://www.latex-community.org/forum/vi ... 45&t=15382
i am not the getting the desired result...dont know why:(
even i have included the setlength command but no results yet:(
maxmax
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Paragraph Indentation stops

Post by maxmax »

Im not sure if i understand you correctly, so you might want to add a MWE that reproduces the problem.
Does the indentation not work after a particular algorithm, or within one?
sabahmed
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Paragraph Indentation stops

Post by sabahmed »

problem is solved now infact i was doing mistake i need to put

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\setlength{\parindent}{1cm}
where indent for paragraph is required. thanks laterx@maxmax
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