New standard paragraph indentation

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One of the other new BYU 2009 standards for Theses (probably Dissertations
too) is that all paragraphs in the document be indented.  Currently, the
first paragraph in a section is flush, while the rest are indented.

The answer to this appears to be the "indentfirst" package.  Something
simple like this:

\RequirePackage{indentfirst}

Don't know yet if this will affect anything else.  If it's anything like
tocbibind, everything will break, right?  In all seriousness, I've added
this to my current working-copy of the template modifications, and it
doesn't seem to cause much problem.

Lloyd

Original issue reported on code.google.com by somewher...@gmail.com on 27 Oct 2009 at 12:49

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This has been in the standard for a long time, and I would ignore it if at all 
possible.  If 
not possible, just add \usepackage{indentfirst} to your document and have done 
with it 
:)

If they get huffy about it, I can add it as an option easily enough.

Original comment by shiblon on 27 Oct 2009 at 1:40

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I agree that the non-indented first paragraph looks better.  Most of the new
standards seem to be oriented around making your document look like MS Word's
defaults, though.  You're right that this is a simple option.  I'll move that 
thing
from my working-copy of the cls file, to the tex file.

Thanks.

Original comment by somewher...@gmail.com on 27 Oct 2009 at 2:05

• Changed state: WontFix

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I've actually gotten away with quite a bit when I did my thesis.  I found that 
if I just 
stuck with the general spacing, the rest of it was about aesthetics.  So, 
hopefully you'll 
get away with it, too.

However, there is a compliantheadings option.  I could add the paragraph thing 
in for 
that case (and I think I will).

Original comment by shiblon on 27 Oct 2009 at 2:30

• Changed state: Started

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This has been fixed.  I'll push it when some of the other outstanding issues 
are tackled.

Basically, it does the RequirePackage if compliantheadings is set.

Original comment by shiblon on 27 Oct 2009 at 2:34

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Actually, were you able to get the indentfirst package to work?  I couldn't get 
it to do 
anything for me.

Original comment by shiblon on 27 Oct 2009 at 2:53

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Marking this WontFix again - I can't even get it to work - if you have any 
ideas, please 
reopen it and we can work on it.

Original comment by shiblon on 27 Oct 2009 at 2:55

• Changed state: WontFix

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Final update - I'm not sure this was ever broken.  I'm getting a first-line 
indent on every 
chapter right now, with no changes.  The example file does it just fine.

Could it be that there are other packages interfering in your own source file?

Original comment by shiblon on 27 Oct 2009 at 3:28

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Not sure.  Some time after I get my paperwork for scheduling my defense done 
(by this
Wednesday!), I'll see if I can create a minimal example.  In any case, the
indentfirst package seems to work for now.  I'll get back to you on this one.

Original comment by somewher...@gmail.com on 27 Oct 2009 at 3:38