Text Formatting ⇒ Why are hanging indents appearing?

[Dr. Doerke]

I'm formatting a book of poetry. Most pages use /begin{verse} text /end{verse}. I have a section of the book which is prose for which the verse package is not called. Each of the paragraphs in that section appear with hanging indents. What's causing this and what can I do about it?

[localghost]

[...] What's causing this and what can I do about it?

This is just a default setting to optically separate two paragraphs. You can switch of this indent globally by modifying the according length for paragraph indentation.

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\setlength{\parindent}{0em}

This line goes into the preamble. But now paragraphs are not separated any more and may be difficult to recognize. Some document classes have built-in features to correct this. For a local switch you can insert the \noindent command right before a new paragraph.


Best regards
Thorsten¹

[Dr. Doerke]

My document class is book. The \noindent solves one problem and creates another. With \noindent the paragraphs are properly blocked (ie left and right justified), but the entire paragraphs are indented as though my margins have been reset leaving my text looking like a narrow column. I should note that the subsection heading is also indented unlike the earlier sections and subsections. Looking for more help...

[Dr. Doerke]

Found the source of the trouble. Sorry. A missing \end{verse} many pages and sections earlier created the problem.