Hi. I`m new to LaTeX and I could not figure out how to do the spacing before paragraphs. Overleaf does it automatically, so I think it is something related to the preamble settings, but I could not find someone talking about this on the internet.
#Spacing before paragraph
wise parrot
delicate drift
When you say before paragraphs, in context do you mean?
Do you mean the space between, say, section header and the following first paragraph?
wise parrot
No, I mean like
delicate drift
Overleaf doesn't do anything to the default behaviour
wise parrot
this
,tex Lorem ipsum Lorem ipsum Lorem ipsum Lorem ipsum Lorem ipsum Lorem ipsum Lorem ipsum Lorem ipsum
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Vilgax
delicate drift
The reason why it's enabled for Overleaf is because they use article class, and article class enables it by default
The variable you're looking for is \parindent.
Explore how it behaves when you manipulate it as follows:
\setlength{\parindent}{ some length + dimension }
the final argument should contain both number and dimension
for example, 1em, 10pt, 5mm etc
delicate drift
If you want the behaviour to be persistent, add it to your preamble.
Do you know how?
it's ,preamble --add \setlength ....
and I can review it for you
wise parrot
ok
what is the dimension arg?
i set it with 70pt just to see a notorius change and it worked
delicate drift
for dimensions, most common options are ex (length of an x for the current font and font size), em (same as ex but length of an m), pt for points, mm and cm (obvious)
ex and em scale with your font, while the others don't
delicate drift
Done