LaTeX tip #1

There are several ways to customize paragraph indentation in LaTeX.
First of all, to indent the first paragraph one should use \usepackage{indentfirst} which will do the job.
Moreover, LaTeX ignores extra spaces and line breaks in the middle of a paragraph, so we don't need to worry about having these. To signify the end of a paragraph include a blank line in the input text by pressing Return twice. One can use \\ to force a line break without an indent and use \ / to include an extra space (this is particularly useful when italic text is right next to other text and it looks too close).