General ⇒ Why can't I left align my paragraphs?

[Mr. Book]

I'm new to latex and have been trying to learn it over the past week or so. I'm liking it so far; however, I can't seem to get my paragraphs to left align. Even when exporting a file from Open Office to a .tex file and running it through latex, the resulting .pdf file is spaced out like a newspaper article. Any advice?

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi,

you could use the ragged2e package. Without that package it's possible by \raggedright or \flushleft but ragged2e should give better results, see its documentation.

Stefan

[Mr. Book]

Works like a charm . Thank you so much!