Indentation Cancellation

I myself is a great fan of LaTex formatting tool, not only for scientific papers and presentations, but also for casual writings. I feel LaTex is the only tool that free me from looking at format and content at the same time. I became really "lazy" after using LaTex, so "lazy" that I even forgot many formatting command in MS Word.

This series of articles aims to provide some practical tips for LaTex, most of which is the one I encountered during my own experience. I am sorry that I am not able to quote all the references, since most tips were cumulated from all sorts of technical forums on Internet, and  they were recorded by me long time ago, but I will try my best to keep the reference if possible.

No indentation in articles - LaTex automatically provides indentations for an article. The mechanism is a little bit wield because for some paragraph you might find indentation, for some else, there is nothing. This property seems rather absurd for a beginner. If you do insist using no indentation, here is the command you need to put in the document declaration part:

\setlength{\parindent}{0in}

Reference: http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/~matloff/LaTeX/LookHereFirst.html