(latex2e.info)Making paragraphs

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15 Making paragraphs
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To start a paragraph, just type some text.  To end the current
paragraph, put an empty line.  This is three paragraphs, separated by
two empty lines.

     It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession
     of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

     However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his
     first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds
     of the surrounding families, that he is considered the rightful property
     of some one or other of their daughters.

     ``My dear Mr. Bennet,'' said his lady to him one day,
     ``have you heard that Netherfield Park is let at last?''

   The separator lines must be empty, including not containing a comment
character, '%'.

   Once LaTeX has gathered all of a paragraph's contents it divides that
content into lines in a way that is optimized over the entire paragraph
(Note: Line breaking).

   There are places where a new paragraph is not permitted.  Don't put a
blank line in math mode (Note: Modes); here the line before the
'\end{equation}'

     \begin{equation}
       2^{|S|} > |S|

     \end{equation}

will get you the error 'Missing $ inserted'.  Similarly, the blank line
in this 'section' argument

     \section{aaa

     bbb}

gets 'Runaway argument? {aaa ! Paragraph ended before \@sect was
complete'.

\par

End the current paragraph.

\indent & \noindent

Go into horizontal mode, possibly with an indent.

\parindent & \parskip

Space added before paragraphs.

Marginal notes

Put remarks in the margin.