line-breakingparagraphs
I am writing on a larger text and sometimes I want to begin a new paragraph. So I don't want to have a new heading, just a space for visiual reasons. Currently I use the solution with \\ \newline
For example:
Here is my text text text and now I finish this thought.
\\ \newline
Here I begin with another aspect....
text text
Another solution I can imagine is with vspace, but this is also not really professional, so how should I do this?
Here is a basic example that defines the companyquote environment:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{lipsum}% http://ctan.org/pkg/lipsum
\usepackage{xcolor}% http://ctan.org/pkg/xcolor
\usepackage{lmodern}% http://ctan.org/pkg/lm
\newenvironment{companyquote}[3][\parindent]
{\bigskip\noindent\bfseries\itshape\sffamily\color{blue!80}% Colour and style of heading
Except from Awesome Company Specification Item #2. #3:\par\nobreak%
\color{black}\normalfont\itshape% Colour and style of excerpt
\parshape 1 #1 \dimexpr\linewidth-#1-#1\relax% Indent & Width of excerpt
\noindent\ignorespaces%
}
{\parshape 1 0pt \linewidth% Restore regular indent/width
\bigskip}
\begin{document}
\lipsum[1]
\begin{companyquote}{123.456 02 G/H}{Creative Spec Name}
\lipsum[2]
\end{companyquote}
\lipsum[3]
\end{document}
The companyquote environment takes three arguments, the first of which is optional.
\parindent;I've added some gaps between the title and the other main text via \bigskip. More can be done, of course, with more information.
xcolor provides colour choices (blue!80 = 80% blue), while lipsum provides dummy text, Lorem Ipsum style. lmodern allows for font-requirements (bold, italicized font).
Wihouth figuring that you are trying to do exactly is hard to say, but except form small chunks of text is just a bad idea make that the end of line (EOL) equivalent to \\ or \newline.
I now that in the it is boring at first, but my suggestion anyway is learn
What is the difference between \newline and \\?,
\linebreak and \par (See also Downsides of using \par instead of two new lines ) and then just use blank lines to make new paragraphs (not to make new lines) and as less as possible the line breaking commands (in the end of rows of tables ... and no much more.) since probably there are better ways to obtain what you want without any \\. (I am thinking in lists, boxes with text, etc.)
Said that, in addition to obeylines environment, another options are parse lines and verbatim environments. What is better depend of what you want, because the tree environments have several significant differences, as you can compare in this example:
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage[margin=2cm]{geometry}
\pagestyle{plain}
\usepackage{xcolor} % Some colors to distinguish environments in the compiled example
\usepackage{parselines}
% huge indentation of paragraph only for demonstration purposes.
\setlength{\parindent}{5em}
% some paragraph skip to better distinguish lines of different paragraphs
\setlength{\parskip}{.8em}
\begin{document}
This is the \texttt{document} environment.
The \LaTeX{} commands are recognized here without problems.
EOL (Linefeed and carriage return) are just ignored. But long lines are well formatted. Test: This is a long sentence to test the text wrap in a pragraph.
\\ This is a new line with \verb|\\|.
\newline This is another \verb|\newline| .
\par This is a new paragraph.
This is another paragraph. Blank lines (no matter how many) means a new paragraph, \textbf{not a new line}. Note that a new paragraph can add indentation in the first line and vertical space, as in this example (or not, depending of \verb|\parindent| and \verb|\parskip| values.
\color{blue!50!black}
\begin{obeylines}
This is the \texttt{obeylines} environment
Some \LaTeX{} commands can be included
This is a new line, but treated as a paragraph.
This is another line (and another paragraph).
Blank lines are just ignored.
Long lines are well formatted (as paragraphs). Test: This is a long sentence to test the text wrap in a pragraph. This is a long sentence to test the text wrap in a pragraph.
\end{obeylines}
\color{red!30!black}
\begin{parse lines}[\noindent]{#1\\}
This is the \texttt{parse lines} environment (need the \texttt{parselines} package)
Some \LaTeX{} commands can be included also (but not all).
This is a line.
This is another line.
And blank lines are just blank lines.
Long lines are well formatted (as lines): Test: This is a long sentence to test the text wrap in a pragraph. This is a long sentence to test the text wrap in a pragraph.
\end{parse lines}
\color{green!30!black}
\begin{verbatim}
This is the verbatim environment.
The \LaTeX{} command are NOT recognized here.
And use teletype text (as using \textt{})
But linefeed and carriage return are recognized.
So this is a new line
And blank lines are just blank lines.
And long lines are just long lines: Test: This is a long sentence to test the text wrap in a pragraph. This is a long sentence to test the text wrap in a pragraph.
\end{verbatim}
\end{document}
Best Answer
As mentionned in the comments, you should not end paragraphs by
\\ \newline, but rather leave an empty line between the paragraphs. Of course, as with many rules there may be an occasion where it is better not to respect it, but these cases are rare.If you wish to have ALL of your paragraphs separated by more space, you can use
\parskip = 10pt(or some other length) in the preamble. There are also some packages that can do this.