Preamble. I use Win 8 Pro x64, MiKTeX 2.9, TeXnicCenter latest version.
\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{polyglossia}
\usepackage{xltxtra}
\usepackage{xunicode}
\usepackage{units}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{pstricks}
\usepackage{float}
\usepackage{wrapfig}
\usepackage[top=2.5cm, left=3cm, bottom=2.5cm, right=2.5cm]{geometry}
\usepackage{setspace}
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\usepackage[document]{ragged2e}
\usepackage[nottoc]{tocbibind}
\usepackage{titlesec}
\usepackage{indentfirst}
\setlength\parindent{24pt}
\titleformat{\section}[block]{\color{black}\Large\bfseries\filcenter}{}{1em}{}
\pgfplotsset{compat=1.8}
\usepgfplotslibrary{polar}
\usepgflibrary{shapes.geometric}
\usetikzlibrary{calc}
\onehalfspacing
\setmainfont{Times New Roman}
\setdefaultlanguage{latvian}
\setotherlanguages{english, russian}
\numberwithin{equation}{subsection}
\numberwithin{figure}{subsection}
\numberwithin{table}{subsection}
\pgfplotsset{pa/.append style={axis x line=bottom, axis y line=left, xlabel={$r; \cdot 10^7 m$}, ylabel={$F_{pa}; \cdot 10^8 N$}}}
\makeatletter
\renewcommand\@biblabel[1]{#1.}
\makeatother
\begin{document}
Piece working as needed:
\begin{center}
\noindent \large{\textsc{University \\
Department\\
Faculty}}
\topskip0pt
\vspace*{\fill}
\noindent \Large{name \\
\textbf{Topic} \\
Study}
\vspace*{\fill}
\end{center}
\begin{FlushRight}
\noindent \large{Work advisor: \\
Professor } \end{FlushRight} \bigskip\bigskip\bigskip\bigskip\bigskip\bigskip\bigskip\bigskip\bigskip\bigskip\bigskip\bigskip
\begin{center}
\noindent \large{\textsc{City, Year}}
\end{center}
\newpage
\tableofcontents
\newpage
Here I make titlepage
according to the asked style.
Then I go for my abstract. And there are no paragraph indents, but I need one at the first line (after section
, and I tried to use both \par
and \indent
for two different paragraphs in that piece of text. Also, not a single intent working in anywhere further in document.
\section*{Abstract}
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\newpage
It should have three indents, but has none.
Looking through existing similar questions didn't bring me any sort of solution either.
Also, I've put my build log on pastebin – http://pastebin.com/0EiP5BKw
Best Answer
You have loaded the package
ragged2e
with thedocument
option, that kills indents and typesets the document in raggedright fashion, which I don't think is what you want.I've also made some changes to your input, so that it's more easily manageable. Note that commands such as
\Large
don't take an argument, but set their action to continue until countermanded by another command or the end of the group where they have been issued.Note also that a paragraph is ended by simply leaving an empty line in the source code.