texinfo: @paragraphindent

Global Document Commands

@firstparagraphindent

@headings

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3.7.4 '@paragraphindent': Controlling Paragraph Indentation
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The Texinfo processors may insert whitespace at the beginning of the
first line of each paragraph, thereby indenting that paragraph.  You can
use the '@paragraphindent' command to specify this indentation.  Write
an '@paragraphindent' command at the beginning of a line followed by
either 'asis' or a number:

     @paragraphindent INDENT

  The indentation is according to the value of INDENT:

'asis'
     Do not change the existing indentation (not implemented in TeX).

'none'
0
     Omit all indentation.

N
     Indent by N space characters in Info output, by N ems in TeX.

  The default value of INDENT is 3.  '@paragraphindent' is ignored for
HTML output.

  It is best to write the '@paragraphindent' command before the
end-of-header line at the beginning of a Texinfo file, so the region
formatting commands indent paragraphs as specified.  Note: Start of
Header.

  A peculiarity of the 'texinfo-format-buffer' and
'texinfo-format-region' commands is that they do not indent (nor fill)
paragraphs that contain '@w' or '@*' commands.