[Tex/LaTex] Shorthand for empty line or \\ \indent

indentationline-breakingparagraphs

This page says that \\ starts a new paragraph.
However, it does not end up looking the same as inserting an empty line in my source code (which I have always used to define paragraphs), which also indents the new line.
The latter describes the visual effect I am looking for, but since I am typing out a conversation (which means a lot of indented newlines), I hope to find a more elegant command for this, so I don't have to fill my source code with empty lines or \\ \indent everywhere.
Is there such a command?

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\\ produces a line break. \par produces a new paragraph. Inserting empty line between two lines produces a new paragraph.

Furthermore, \\ does not justify the last line before. If you want so you can use \linebreak.

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[Tex/LaTex] Indentation and line wraps in TeXShop

I not sure what exactly is your required feature, but maybe the following will satisfy you. I make use of another program to do the work, namely Textwrangler, to properly align and insert hard line breaks.

Here is a macro that does the following:

collects all marked text,
passes it on to Textwrangler
where the text is properly aligned and broken
the result is pasted back in TexShop in place of the marked text.

I apply the macro using an assigned keyboard shortcut. I am no Applescript whizkid, so I guess the macro can be improved.

--Applescript
-- Script to transfer the current TeXShop document to TextWrangler
-- Ido Ben-Zvi
-- Based on Ramon Figueroa-Centeno's macros 

tell application "TeXShop"
    try
        activate
        set posPath to path of the front document
        --return posPath

        tell application "System Events" to keystroke "c" using {command down}

        tell application "TextWrangler"
            activate
            tell application "System Events"
                keystroke "a" using command down
                keystroke "v" using command down
                keystroke "a" using command down
            end tell
            hard wrap selection of text window 1 limit character width width 80 indentation none with paragraph fill and relative
            --copy selection of text window 1
            --set modified_text to selection of text window 1       
            tell application "System Events" to keystroke "c" using {command down}
            --close myTeXfile
        end tell


        -- back at TexShop      
        activate
        --set modified of front document to yes
        --paste 
        tell application "System Events"
            keystroke "v" using command down
        end tell
    on error
        beep
    end try
end tell




--tell application "TextWrangler"
--  close POSIX file FILEPATH
--end tell

[Tex/LaTex] paragraph design and single lines

I think that's rather simple, use the parskip package, it will take care of that automatically as well as of a host of other (more intricate) spacing problems to have a visually appealing document. :)

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