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[Chris Woollard <cwoollard@xxxxxxxxx>]

Kyle

You can add \noindent to override the intents

Chris
On 13 Jan 2011 16:52, "Kevin Godby" <godbyk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 'allo.
>
> On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 9:09 AM, Kyle Nitzsche
> <kyle.nitzsche@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> It appears that first lines of paragraphs are indented unless they are
the
>> first line of a chapter or section.
>
> Yep. This is the correct way to handle paragraph indentation. (I
> could quote references such as The Chicago Manual of Style and some
> design books, but you didn't seem impressed by that last time. :-))
>
>> This causes odd layout sometimes, for example when you start a section
with
>> two or more paragraphs all of which are short enough to be only on one
line.
>>  * The first line is *not* indented
>>  * The second *is* indented
>>  * The third *is* indented
>>
>> See attached image. The content is three one line paragraphs. Result:
first
>> is not indented. Rest Are.
>>
>> This is confusing I think, because the reader can't easily understand
what
>> is and is not a new paragraph.
>
> I think this exemplifies poor writing and not poor design. Those
> three sentences should belong to the same paragraph. One-sentence
> paragraphs should be fairly rare.
>
>> One solution may be to never indent the first line of a paragraph. My
>> (subjective) design opinion is that this is a cleaner and more modern
visual
>> look, and it avoids this kind of issue.
>
> This is something I've been considering. Since we're inserting so
> many blocks of code and other display material, it leads to many
> instances of a single line of text introducing the display material
> making up the paragraph. I'll work on the implementation a bit later
> today so we can see what it looks like. (One slight downside is that
> it'll increase the length of the book a bit, but I don't think we're
> too concerned about page count—correct me if I'm wrong.)
>
> --Kevin
>
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