General ⇒ Good formatting practice for books?

[Fenster]

I'm currently familiarizing myself with LaTeX by virtue of writing a book using it, and I'm wondering what is considered to be good practice for formatting, to keep the work clean. I'm separating paragraphs with a \paragraph{} break, for example, at the end of each one, but I'm not so sure that this is the tidiest way to go about it.

Would anyone have general advice on this and other formatting techniques?

[localghost]

I can't really figure out what you are doing exactly. But with the \paragraph command you are using the lowest level for structuring your document. It would be good to have some code here. Maybe you can provide a minimal working example (MWE).

Since you are a beginner, you should take a look at lshort and l2tabu. If you want to use LaTeX regularly in the future, you should think about acquiring general literature about LaTeX. For any other question, feel free to ask.


Best regards and welcome on Board
Thorsten

[Fenster]

I made a post and forgot about it, which is bad form on my part. Specifically I wanted to know a way to space paragraphs, which I in the end found through Google:

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\setlength\headheight{14pt}
\setlength{\parindent}{0.0in}
\setlength{\parskip}{0.1in}

So, problem solved. My next issue is seemingly random page breaks between chapters. The document I'm working on is still in draft form, but I'm compiled the current version and put it online along with the source:

PDF:

http://www.bhalash.com/files/docs/express_elevator.pdf

Source TEX:


http://www.bhalash.com/files/docs/express_elevator.tex

There's a pagebreak between the title page and first chapter that I'd like to remove, and another on page 13. Is there a way to consistently remove them?

[localghost]

Add openany to the option list of the documentclass or change to the report class.

[Fenster]

You are my saviour, danke!