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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>@paragraphindent (GNU Texinfo 6.8)</title> <meta name="description" content="@paragraphindent (GNU Texinfo 6.8)"> <meta name="keywords" content="@paragraphindent (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="Global-Document-Commands.html" rel="up" title="Global Document Commands"> <link href="_0040firstparagraphindent.html" rel="next" title="@firstparagraphindent"> <link href="Headings.html" rel="prev" title="Headings"> <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_0040paragraphindent"> <div class="header"> <p> Next: <a href="_0040firstparagraphindent.html" accesskey="n" rel="next"><code>@firstparagraphindent</code>: Indenting After Headings</a>, Previous: <a href="Headings.html" accesskey="p" rel="prev">Page Headings</a>, Up: <a href="Global-Document-Commands.html" accesskey="u" rel="up">Global Document Commands</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_0040paragraphindent_003a-Controlling-Paragraph-Indentation"></span><h3 class="section">E.3 <code>@paragraphindent</code>: Controlling Paragraph Indentation</h3> <span id="paragraphindent"></span><span id="index-paragraphindent"></span> <span id="index-Indenting-paragraphs_002c-control-of"></span> <span id="index-Paragraph-indentation-control"></span> <p>The Texinfo processors may insert whitespace at the beginning of the first line of each paragraph, thereby indenting that paragraph. You can use the <code>@paragraphindent</code> command to specify this indentation. Write a <code>@paragraphindent</code> command at the beginning of a line followed by either ‘<samp>asis</samp>’ or a number: </p> <div class="example"> <pre class="example">@paragraphindent <var>indent</var> </pre></div> <p>The indentation is according to the value of <var>indent</var>: </p> <dl compact="compact"> <dt><span><code>asis</code></span></dt> <dd><p>Do not change the existing indentation (not implemented in TeX). </p> </dd> <dt><span><code>none</code></span></dt> <dt><span>0</span></dt> <dd><p>Omit all indentation. </p> </dd> <dt><span><var>n</var></span></dt> <dd><p>Indent by <var>n</var> space characters in Info output, by <var>n</var> ems in TeX. </p> </dd> </dl> <p>The default value of <var>indent</var> is 3. <code>@paragraphindent</code> is ignored for HTML output. </p> <p>It is best to write the <code>@paragraphindent</code> command before the end-of-header line at the beginning of a Texinfo file, so the region formatting commands indent paragraphs as specified. See <a href="Start-of-Header.html">Start of Header</a>. </p> </div> </body> </html>