[Tex/LaTex] How to apply \looseness=-1 to ALL the paragraphs

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I'm writing a short document of (3-4 pages), and try to condense it into the allowed space.

Putting \looseness=-1 at the end a paragraph helps quite a lot. Is there a way to tell LaTeX to treat every paragraph as if there is a \looseness=-1 at its end, or must I put the command after each and every paragraph by myself?

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At the end? Rather at the beginning. And generally:

\everypar{\looseness=-1}

However it does not mean that every paragraph will be one line shorter.

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Notwithstanding, that this is not the type of paragraph formatting that one would recommend for modern typesetting, the approach you can take is what you suggested; that is to manually insert pilcrows into the text rather than using newlines.

As you seem to require the quick changing between various different formats, I would suggest you create a macro to switch on-off the effects of the Pilcrow macro:

  \let\cacheP\P
  \def\Poff{\def\P{\leavevmode\par}}
  \def\Pon{\let\P\cacheP}

In the mark-up, you can use \Pon and \Poff, as required. Here is the MWE:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\let\cacheP\P
\def\Poff{\def\P{\leavevmode\par}}
\def\Pon{\let\P\cacheP}
\begin{document}
This is a short paragraph. \P This is another and this is another.
\P And another.

And this is a normal one.\lipsum*[1]

This is how you negate the effect.

\Poff
This is a short paragraph.
\P This is another and this is another.
\P and another.

\Pon

This is a short paragraph.
\P This is another and this is another.
\P and another.
\end{document}

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