[254] in SIPB bug reports
Latex bug -- not a bug
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Mon Nov 21 18:42:00 1988
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 88 18:41:43 EST
From: "Jonathan I. Kamens" <jik@Athena.MIT.EDU>
To: pslaw@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: bug-sipb[0253]
Cc: bug-sipb@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Paul,
The behavior you illustrated is not a bug. LaTeX indents paragraphs
a set length. It considers each block of text appearing after a blank
line (or the first block of text after the \begin{document}) to be a
new paragraph, and therefore indents it. It does not indent the first
paragraph of a chapter or section.
If you don't want any indentation, then you can set the length
\parindent to 0. I.e., \setlength{\parindent}{0in}.
Or, you can just continue to use the \noindent commands.
I hope this helps.
--> Jonathan Kamens
Project Athena Watchmaker
SIPB (Student Information Processing Board) Member
Volunteer OLC Consultant
jik@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
