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diff --git a/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-parskip.html b/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-parskip.html new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..d8968391a87 --- /dev/null +++ b/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-parskip.html @@ -0,0 +1,36 @@ +<head> +<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label parskip</title> +</head><body> +<h3>Zero paragraph indent</h3> +<p>The conventional way of typesetting running text has no separation +between paragraphs, and the first line of each paragraph in a block of +text indented. +<p>In contrast, one common convention for typewritten text was to have no +indentation of paragraphs; such a style is often required for +"brutalist" publications such as technical manuals, and in styles +that hanker after typewritten manuscripts, such as +officially-specified dissertation formats. +<p>Anyone can see, after no more than a moment's thought, that if the +paragraph indent is zero, the paragraphs must be separated by blank +space: otherwise it is sometimes going to be impossible to see the +breaks between paragraphs. +<p>The simple-minded approach to zero paragraph indentation is thus: +<pre> + \setlength{\parindent}{0pt} + \setlength{\parskip}{\baselineskip} +</pre> +and in the very simplest text, it's a fine solution. +<p>However, the non-zero <code>\</code><code>parskip</code> interferes with lists and the like, +and the result looks pretty awful. The <i>parskip</i> package +patches things up to look reasonable; it's not perfect, but it deals +with most problems. +<p>The Netherlands Users' Group's set of classes includes an +<i>article</i> equivalent (<i>artikel3</i>) and a <i>report</i> +equivalent (<i>rapport3</i>) whose design incorporates zero paragraph +indent and non-zero paragraph skip. +<dl> +<dt><tt><i>NTG classes</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/ntgclass.zip">macros/latex/contrib/ntgclass</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/ntgclass.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/ntgclass/">browse</a>) +<dt><tt><i>parskip.sty</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/misc/parskip.sty">macros/latex/contrib/misc/parskip.sty</a> +</dl> +<p><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=parskip">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=parskip</a> +</body> |