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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <!-- Created by GNU Texinfo 6.8, https://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/ --> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <!-- This manual is for GNU Texinfo (version 6.8, 8 June 2021), a documentation system that can produce both online information and a printed manual from a single source using semantic markup. Copyright (C) 1988, 1990-1993, 1995-1999, 2001-2021 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License". --> <title>@indent (GNU Texinfo 6.8)</title> <meta name="description" content="@indent (GNU Texinfo 6.8)"> <meta name="keywords" content="@indent (GNU Texinfo 6.8)"> <meta name="resource-type" content="document"> <meta name="distribution" content="global"> <meta name="Generator" content="texi2any"> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width,initial-scale=1"> <link href="index.html" rel="start" title="Top"> <link href="Command-and-Variable-Index.html" rel="index" title="Command and Variable Index"> <link href="index.html#SEC_Contents" rel="contents" title="Table of Contents"> <link href="Quotations-and-Examples.html" rel="up" title="Quotations and Examples"> <link href="_0040cartouche.html" rel="next" title="@cartouche"> <link href="_0040noindent.html" rel="prev" title="@noindent"> <style type="text/css"> <!-- a.copiable-anchor {visibility: hidden; text-decoration: none; line-height: 0em} a.summary-letter {text-decoration: none} blockquote.indentedblock {margin-right: 0em} div.display {margin-left: 3.2em} div.example {margin-left: 3.2em} kbd {font-style: oblique} pre.display {font-family: inherit} pre.format {font-family: inherit} pre.menu-comment {font-family: serif} pre.menu-preformatted {font-family: serif} span.nolinebreak {white-space: nowrap} span.roman {font-family: initial; font-weight: normal} span.sansserif {font-family: sans-serif; font-weight: normal} span:hover a.copiable-anchor {visibility: visible} ul.no-bullet {list-style: none} --> </style> </head> <body lang="en"> <div class="section" id="g_t_0040indent"> <div class="header"> <p> Next: <a href="_0040cartouche.html" accesskey="n" rel="next"><code>@cartouche</code>: Rounded Rectangles</a>, Previous: <a href="_0040noindent.html" accesskey="p" rel="prev"><code>@noindent</code>: Omitting Indentation</a>, Up: <a href="Quotations-and-Examples.html" accesskey="u" rel="up">Quotations and Examples</a> [<a href="index.html#SEC_Contents" title="Table of contents" rel="contents">Contents</a>][<a href="Command-and-Variable-Index.html" title="Index" rel="index">Index</a>]</p> </div> <hr> <span id="g_t_0040indent_003a-Forcing-Indentation"></span><h3 class="section">7.13 <code>@indent</code>: Forcing Indentation</h3> <span id="indent"></span><span id="index-indent"></span> <span id="index-Forcing-indentation"></span> <span id="index-Inserting-indentation"></span> <span id="index-Indentation_002c-forcing"></span> <p>To complement the <code>@noindent</code> command (see the previous section), Texinfo provides the <code>@indent</code> command to force a paragraph to be indented. For instance, this paragraph (the first in this section) is indented using an <code>@indent</code> command. </p> <p>And indeed, the first paragraph of a section is the most likely place to use <code>@indent</code>, to override the normal behavior of no indentation there (see <a href="_0040paragraphindent.html"><code>@paragraphindent</code>: Controlling Paragraph Indentation</a>). It can either be followed by text or be on a line by itself. </p> <p>As a special case, when <code>@indent</code> is used in an environment where text is not filled, it produces a paragraph indentation space in the TeX output. (These environments are where a line of input produces a line of output, such as <code>@example</code> and <code>@display</code>; for a summary of all environments, see <a href="Block-Enclosing-Commands.html">Block Enclosing Commands</a>.) </p> <p>Do not put braces after an <code>@indent</code> command; they are not used, since <code>@indent</code> is a command used outside of paragraphs (see <a href="Command-Syntax.html">@-Command Syntax</a>). </p> </div> </body> </html>