What different effects do ending a paragraph in the following three ways have?
1.
words words words
words words words
2.
words words words\\
words words words
3.
words words words\\
words words words
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What different effects do ending a paragraph in the following three ways have?
1.
words words words
words words words
2.
words words words\\
words words words
3.
words words words\\
words words words
Best Answer
As I said in my comment, "The first provides a paragraph break, the second is a forced line break within a paragraph, which is not generally recommended. Since many LaTeX actions are only executed at the end of a paragraph, the seeming small difference in syntax can have a profound appearance on the output."
Here are some examples of functional differences.
Note this code can be automated in a macro (note that an extra blank line is the same thing as a
\par
for the purposes of LaTeX):