Synopsis:
\setlength{\parindent}{horizontal len} \setlength{\parskip}{vertical len}
Both are rubber lengths (see Lengths). They affect the indentation of ordinary paragraphs, not paragraphs inside minipages (see minipage), and the vertical space between paragraphs, respectively.
For example, if this is put in the preamble:
\setlength{\parindent}{0em} \setlength{\parskip}{1ex}
The document will have paragraphs that are not indented, but instead are vertically separated by about the height of a lowercase ‘x’.
In standard LaTeX documents, the default value for \parindent
in one-column documents is 15pt
when the default text size is 10pt
, 17pt
for 11pt
, and 1.5em
for 12pt
. In two-column documents it is 1em
. (These values are set before LaTeX calls \normalfont
so em
is derived from the default font, Computer Modern. If you use a different font then to set \parindent
in units matching that font, do \AtBeginDocument{\setlength{\parindent}{1em}}
.)
The default value for \parskip
in LaTeX’s standard document styles is 0pt plus1pt
.
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