[Tex/LaTex] working with \noindent and \indent

indentationlists

How can I write a text with this style? Between the \section and the text, I want to place some bullets with smaller font sizes. Please note the no-indent bullets and the indentation of the first line of paragraph.

I have wrote this but there is no indentation at the first paragraph.

\section{The Section}
\noindent
    \begin{itemize}
      \item \textit{good}
      \item \textit{bad}
    \end{itemize}
\indent In this section....

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Best Answer

First of all, notice that you don't have a paragraph break after the itemize environment, therefore there will be no indentation no matter whether you use \indent or not.

The first thing to fix is to add a paragraph there:

\section{The Section}
\begin{itemize}
\item \textit{good}
\item \textit{bad}
\end{itemize}

In this section....

first

Now, you get indentation but it's probably not what you wanted. You may not like that the bullets are also indented. This is the default style for itemize. If you want to change it, the easiest way is probably to use the enumitem package:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{enumitem}
\begin{document}
\section{The Section}
\begin{itemize}[leftmargin=\parindent]
\item \textit{good}
\item \textit{bad}
\end{itemize}

In this section....
\end{document}

second

This looks almost the same as your (Word, I presume?) document, except that the bullet itself is not left-aligned with the margin. If you want that as well (I advise against it), you need some more tweaking:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{enumitem}
\begin{document}
\section{The Section}
\hrule\vskip 6pt
\begin{itemize}[leftmargin=\parindent, labelwidth=\parindent, labelsep=0pt, align=left]
\item \textit{good}
\item \textit{bad}
\end{itemize}

In this section....
\end{document}

third

but notice that the section number does not look exactly aligned with the left margin either.

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