Text Formatting ⇒ Difference between "\\" and "\par"

[ytyyutianyun]

What's the difference between "\\" and "\par"?
Thanks

[Stefan Kottwitz]

• \\ ends a line, the following text starts at the beginning of a new line. The next line belongs to the same (logical) paragraph.
• \par ends the paragraph (so implicitly also the line). But because the paragraph is ended, a paragraph indentation or a paragraph skip may be added, in addition to the line skip, depending on the settings.

Stefan

[ytyyutianyun]

Thanks, I don't know how I can possibly thank you enough.