Page Layout ⇒ My paragraph and new line indents are of different lengths

[veyd]

Hello

I'm having quite an annoying problem in the thesis I'm writing: the indentation lengths of \paragraph and empty lines are different.

Some of the packages I'm using: lscape, subfig, caption, fancyhdr, titlesec, makerobust, changepage.

I realise this may be a bit of a long shot without providing far more details about my document, but is this a known problem with a known solution?

Can the length of a new line indent be controlled independently from \parindent?

[localghost]

I wonder how an empty line can have indentation. But perhaps we are talking about \parindent and \parskip. Be more precise in your description. An important information would be the used document class.


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten

[veyd]

I wonder how an empty line can have indentation.

Ah yes, poor choice of words. What I meant is the indents of the first line of paragraphs created by (a) the command \paragraph{}; and (b) an empty line in the .tex; are of different lengths.

In my document, the following code

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\paragraph{}
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Aliquam at urna nec nulla convallis cursus in ac metus.

Sed molestie justo ut nulla suscipit lacinia. Donec molestie rutrum tincidunt. Aenean egestas laoreet mauris, quis eleifend mi aliquam eget.
\paragraph{}
Donec imperdiet turpis sit amet mi faucibus quis fringilla metus. Class aptent taciti sociosqu ad litora torquent per conubia nostra, per inceptos himenaeos.

produces

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The length the indents of the 1st (Lorem...) and 3rd (Donec...) paragraphs is different from the length of the indent of the 2nd paragraph (Sed...).

I'm using the book class.

[localghost]

You misunderstood the meaning of the \paragraph command. It is a sectioning command like \chapter and has a mandatory argument. Just write your paragraphs without it and leave a blank line. If you really want to have some additional vertical space between two paragraphs, just use one of the commands \smallskip, \medskip or \bigskip. But indenting of and spacing between paragraphs together makes no sense. Choose one or the other.

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Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Aliquam at urna nec nulla convallis cursus in ac metus.

Sed molestie justo ut nulla suscipit lacinia. Donec molestie rutrum tincidunt. Aenean egestas laoreet mauris, quis eleifend mi aliquam eget.

\medskip
Donec imperdiet turpis sit amet mi faucibus quis fringilla metus. Class aptent taciti sociosqu ad litora torquent per conubia nostra, per inceptos himenaeos.

[veyd]

Just saw your reply, but have to run out.
Have to think about this... seems I've been doing something wrong for years.

[veyd]

It seems you're right.

But indenting of and spacing between paragraphs together makes no sense.

This made a lot of sense to me. I did use \paragraph as a sectioning command, to separate topics in my texts. However, the topics didn't warrant titles, so I'd always use \paragraph{} to obtain an indented and spaced paragraph. But apparently, I'm the only one to whom this makes sense, and in years of writing reports, I never noticed.

So, thanks for making me take notice.