Am Wed, 12 Dec 2012 15:52:07 +0000 schrieb Joseph Wright: >> You can see that also the "A" is on the left (and the Z on the >> right). So the direction of words are not changed. Only the lines >> are moved to the right -- which hasn't much effect on lines with a >> width equal to textwidth. > What I found odd was that I'd view the \indent as > a part of the 'shape within a paragraph', in the same way that say > \rightskip is (used to alter what happens *within* any 'outer' \parshape > or \hangindent). However, it's treated as part of the text itself, not > the shaping.
I now see what you mean. I personally do find it quite natural, that \parindent is "attached" to the first word of the paragraph. I find the result of this (in a latex document) much more disturbing: a\\b\\c\par Only the last line is on the right ;-(. -- Ulrike Fischer http://www.troubleshooting-tex.de/
