I am writing a thesis report using LaTeX and I need to add indentations because every new paragraph starts from the initial position on the left.
How do I add indentations?
[Tex/LaTex] How to add indentation
indentationspacing
Related Solutions
Setting \parindent inside \textt is not something I'd do. Remember that an end-of-line is the same as a space:
\noindent\texttt{%
text 1: Follow the white rabbit!\\
text 2: Follow the tiny white rabbit!\\
}%
Some text follows.
But perhaps you want verbatim:
Some text before the typewriter type text
\begin{verbatim}
text 1: Follow the white rabbit!
text 2: Follow the tiny white rabbit!
\end{verbatim}
Some text follows.
I give it a try:
Standard Behaviour
The standard paragraph shows an indentation in the first line and no space between paragraphs (\parskip is zero).
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{blindtext}
\begin{document}
\blindtext
\blindtext
\end{document}
Standard Document Class Solution
You can use the parskip package (CTAN link) to solve your problem.
From the documentation:
Package to be used with any document class at any size. It produces the following Paragraph Layout:
Zero Parindent and non-zero Parskip. The stretchable glue in
\parskiphelps LaTeX in finding the best place for page breaks.In addition, the package adjusts the skips between list items.
This package is no more than quick fix; the ‘proper’ way to achieve effects as far-reaching as this is to create a new class. An example class is to be found in the
ntgclassset:artikel3.clsThe
koma-scriptbundle classes and thememoirclass all provide similar functionality, and their respective documentation files discuss the pros (such as they are) and cons of this approach.
\documentclass{article}
% new package
\usepackage{parskip}
\usepackage{blindtext}
\begin{document}
\blindtext
\blindtext
\blindlist{itemize}
\end{document}
Bad Solution: Manually Change the Lengths
Important for you is that the package parskip takes care of other things too. Sometimes you see people manually changing the parameters like \setlength{\parindent}{0em} and \setlength{\parskip}{1em} but this is considered bad because it also could change the distance between items in lists and so on. But I am not an expert here.
Alternative Solution: KOMA Approach
There are the so called KOMA-Script (CTAN link) document classes (in contrast to the standard document classes like article and book).
They offer a document class option called parskip which also "takes care of everything".
\documentclass[parskip]{scrartcl}
\usepackage{blindtext}
\begin{document}
\blindtext
\blindtext
\blindlist{itemize}
\end{document}
PS: I don't get the
\section*{\hspace{150pt} Motivation}
\hspace{10pt}\begin{normalsize}
part of your code.
Best Answer
Paragraph indention is controled by the parameter
\parindent. In most document classes it is set to a positive value so you should see indentations. If this is not the case you can set this parameter in the document preamble to whatever value you wish, e.g.Of course, a requirement is that you mark up your paragraphs: a paragraph ends by either a blank line or by the command
\par. If you instead just used\\you have directed LaTeX to start a new line but not a new paragraph.