Indentation primitives

There are two main ways to distinguish between successive paragraphs: separate them by a small vertical space, or use an indentation for each new paragraph. The indentation can be explicitly controlled using the no-indent, yes-indent, no-indent* and yes-indent* tags. The no-indent and yes-indent primitives apply to the current paragraph, while the no-indent* and yes-indent* apply the next paragraph.

<no-indent>

<yes-indent>

Disable or enable indentation for the current paragraph. For instance, the code

<document|<no-indent>This is a long paragraph which demonstrates the disabling indentation using the <markup|no-indent> primitive.|<yes-indent>This is a long paragraph which demonstrates enabling indentation using the <markup|yes-indent> primitive.>

typically produces

This is a long paragraph which demonstrates the disabling indentation using the no-indent primitive.

This is a long paragraph which demonstrates enabling indentation using the yes-indent primitive.

<no-indent*>

<yes-indent*>

Disable or enable indentation for the next paragraph. For instance,

<document|A first paragraph.<yes-indent*>|A second paragraph.>

typically produces

A first paragraph.

A second paragraph.

Notice that no-indent and yes-indent override no-indent* and yes-indent* directives in the previous paragraph.

Currently, the no-indent* and yes-indent* tags are mainly used in order to control the indentation after section titles or environments like equation which usually correspond to paragraph units. In the future, when sectional tags will take the section bodies as arguments, and when the paragraph tag will be correctly implemented, the no-indent* and yes-indent* will become deprecated.

© 2004 Joris van der Hoeven
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