[Tex/LaTex] Have new line between paragraphs, no indentation

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Is there an easy way to have my whole document with a space between paragraphs rather than indentation?

I am sure that this must be a dup, but I can't find the right keywords to search for. So I am posting.

Right now my latex paragraphs look like this:

The paragraph does not start out with
an indent.  But when you make a new 
paragraph there is an indent.  
     This is a new paragraph.  Can 
you see the indent?  
     This is another paragraph.

I would like to have no indenting but and an empty line between paragraphs.
This is what I am using to remove the indents:

\setlength{\parindent}{0}

But I am not sure how to add in new lines. I think it is something like this:

\setlength{\parskip}{1}

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Best Answer

Just include the following before \begin{document}

\usepackage[parfill]{parskip}

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Adding

\usepackage{parskip}

to the preamble of your document (the part between \documentclass{...} and \begin{document} will set the paragraphs to have no indentation and a bit of space between them.

Note that this isn't a complete solution, because there may be elements in your document that you don't want this format to apply to (footnotes, for example). A proper solution would involve (effectively) writing a new document class.

You can read a bit about how the parskip package works by looking at the comments in parskip.sty itself.

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The class indeed sets zero parindent and a nonzero parskip. Moreover it uses vmargin which is known to be incompatible with some packages, notably atbegshi which is used by various others.

I suggest you to modify it, changing lines from 66 to 89; here's the original (with line numbers for reference):

 66 \usepackage{setspace}
 67 \onehalfspacing
 68 \setlength{\parindent}{0pt}
 69 \setlength{\parskip}{2.0ex plus0.5ex minus0.2ex}
 70 \usepackage{vmargin}
 71 %----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 72 %       MARGINS
 73 %----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 74 \setmarginsrb  { 1.5in}  % left margin
 75                         { 0.6in}  % top margin
 76                         { 1.0in}  % right margin
 77                         { 0.8in}  % bottom margin
 78                         {  20pt}  % head height
 79                         {0.25in}  % head sep
 80                         {   9pt}  % foot height
 81                         { 0.3in}  % foot sep
 82 %----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 83 \raggedbottom
 84 \setlength{\topskip}{1\topskip \@plus 5\p@}
 85 \doublehyphendemerits=10000       % No consecutive line hyphens.
 86 \brokenpenalty=10000              % No broken words across columns/pages.
 87 \widowpenalty=9999                % Almost no widows at bottom of page.
 88 \clubpenalty=9999                 % Almost no orphans at top of page.
 89 \interfootnotelinepenalty=9999    % Almost never break footnotes.

Here's the modified code

%%% Uncomment the following two lines if you really want doublespacing
%\usepackage{setspace}
%\onehalfspacing

\usepackage{geometry}
\geometry{includehead,includefoot,
  left=1.5in,
  top=0.6in,
  right=1.0in,
  bottom=0.8in,
  headheight=20pt,
  headsep=0.25in,
  footskip=0.3in}

\doublehyphendemerits=10000       % No consecutive line hyphens.
\brokenpenalty=10000              % No broken words across columns/pages.
\widowpenalty=9999                % Almost no widows at bottom of page.
\clubpenalty=9999                 % Almost no orphans at top of page.
\@clubpenalty=9999                % Almost no orphans at top of page.
\interfootnotelinepenalty=9999    % Almost never break footnotes.

Comments

Double spacing is bad, avoid it if you can.
vmargin is not to be used.
Setting a flexible \topskip is a quite bad idea.
The final settings of the penalty parameters may seem a good idea, but it's not. However, I didn't touch them, except adding the setting of \@clubpenalty, which is the real parameter in LaTeX for controlling orphan lines.
\raggedbottom in a twosided document is not recommendable.

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