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Noobix Cube
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Indenting new paragraph using '\par' command

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This may seem a simple question but how do you finish a paragraph and begin a new one which has kipped a line and the first line is indented. namely (I just used some text off the main page of wiki...)

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Miami is a particular church of the Roman Catholic Church in the United States. Its ecclesiastic territory includes Broward, Miami-Dade and Monroe counties in Florida. The archdiocese is the metropolitan see for the Roman Catholic Church in the State of Florida.

The current archbishop is John Favalora As archbishop, Favalora also serves as pastor of the Cathedral of Saint Mary, the mother church of the archdiocese. Also serving are 428 priests, 160 Permanent Deacons, 50 Religious Brothers and 300 Religious Sisters who are members of various Roman Catholic religious orders. These priests, deacons and religious serve a Catholic population in South Florida of 1,300,000 in 118 parishes and missions. Because of the ...

I have tried using the following :
ecclesiastic territory includes Broward, Miami-Dade and Monroe counties in Florida. The archdiocese is the metropolitan see for the Roman Catholic Church in the State of Florida.\\ \par The current archbishop is John Favalora As archbishop, Favalora also..

But it doesn't seem to work. Help! :shock:

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phi
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Indenting new paragraph using '\par' command

Post by phi »

Hello,
what exactly do you want? If you haven't disabled paragraph indenting, every paragraph gets indented without any command. If you have set \parindent to zero and want to have indentation for exactly one paragraph, simply set it to a nonzero value.
Noobix Cube
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Re: Indenting new paragraph using '\par' command

Post by Noobix Cube »

Hey thanks! :lol:
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