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 (see Line breaking).
There are places where a new paragraph is not permitted. Don’t put a blank line in math mode (see 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. |
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