I was wondering how I can justify the text without making it indenting with \justifying
.
I'm using
\usepackage[parfill]{parskip}
Secondary question:
Any way how to increase the parskip distance, by the way?
Thanks!
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I was wondering how I can justify the text without making it indenting with \justifying
.
I'm using
\usepackage[parfill]{parskip}
Secondary question:
Any way how to increase the parskip distance, by the way?
Thanks!
Best Answer
It is better to use the parskip package (as shown in the question) than to just adjust the
parskip
andparindent
yourself unless you are also prepared to make the kinds of adjustments required to avoid the side-effects of these changes.In addition to adjusting these lengths,
parskip
does some basic work to avoid excessive spacing in list environments. Even if you do not think you use lists, you probably do since many LaTeX environments are based on lists. For example,quotation
is a trivial list environment and there are many others.Here is a document which just adjusts the lengths by hand based on Fran's answer:
As can be seen, excessive spacing is left around the quotation and list, in comparison with that which is left between regular paragraphs.
Here is the same document using
parskip
with default adjustments:It is still very possible to adjust the
parskip
while benefiting from the package's improved layout of list environments. This example uses the sameparskip
as that in the first document and as specified in Fran's 'reasonable' settings:As can be seen, the manual adjustment of the
parskip
length does not undermine the enhancements to layout achieved by loading theparskip
package. So this option offers the best results with standard classes.That is, some classes are designed to accommodate non-zero
parskip
and zeroparindent
in their design, and these will likely have more fine-grained tuning. But for classes which are not so designed, loading the packageparskip
instead of, or in addition to, setting theparskip
length explicitly will give the best results.To avoid the oddity of the indented paragraph in the quotation, either use
quote
rather thanquotation
or let the latter environment be equal to the former one: