LaTeX help

[sym]

I'm not sure if this is too far off topic, but...


I am learning LaTeX, and after a \section tag, the next line, which is the start of a paragraph, is not indented. I have played with a blank line, the \par and the \indent tags, but they don't seem to do anything. Any ideas on what is happening?

(Yes, I have been working Google, but I didn't find an answer)

[kuber]

Could you post it?

[sym]

\documentclass[11pt, titlepage]{article}
% define the title
\author{S M}
\title{First \LaTeX{} Document}
\begin{document}

% generates the title
\maketitle

% insert TOC
\tableofcontents
\newpage

\section{Start}

\indent Begining text here for section "Start". This is the first paragraph of
this document. I need to figure out the rules for defining paragraphs in \LaTeX{}. It seems to be a very usable tool.

This is the second paragraph. ......

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The second paragraph and every paragraph after that was indented, but the first wasn't. I am not sure if this is given in the document class "article" definition, or if I am doing something wrong.

[ 01 November 2001: Message edited by: sym ]

[sym]

I found the answer somewhere.

You need to use \indent\indent as the flag