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On paragraphs in TeX/LaTeX

27. February 2013 by tom 9 Comments

When writing documents in TeX/LaTeX, it is important to understand how the TeX engine “thinks”. A paragraph is the basic text unit in a document and many TeX/LaTeX commands, when used properly, affect the current paragraph only. TeX provides a set of basic commands controlling the way a paragraphs are typeset. The following article explains … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Introduction, LaTeX, Tips & tricks Tagged: baselineskip, hsize, LaTeX, leftskip, minipage, par, paragraph, parbox, parindent, parskip, rightskip, TeX




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