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Paragraph Indenting
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The Info formatting commands may insert spaces at the beginning of
the first line of each paragraph, thereby indenting that paragraph. You
can use the `@paragraphindent' command to specify the indentation.
Write an `@paragraphindent' command at the beginning of a line followed
by either `asis' or a number. The template is:
@paragraphindent INDENT
The Info formatting commands indent according to the value of INDENT:
* If the value of INDENT is `asis', the Info formatting commands do
not change the existing indentation.
* If the value of INDENT is 0, the Info formatting commands delete
existing indentation.
* If the value of INDENT is greater than 0, the Info formatting
commands indent the paragraph by that number of spaces.
The default value of INDENT is `asis'.
Write the `@paragraphindent' command before or shortly after the
end-of-header line at the beginning of a Texinfo file. (If you write
the command between the start-of-header and end-of-header lines, the
region formatting commands indent paragraphs as specified.)
A peculiarity of `texinfo-format-buffer' and `texinfo-format-region'
is that they do not indent (nor fill) paragraphs that contain `@w' or
`@*' commands. Refilling Paragraphs , for a detailed
description of what goes on.