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Paragraph Indenting
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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).

0
     Omit all indentation.

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

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

  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 the `texinfo-format-buffer' and
`texinfo-format-region' commands is that they do not indent (nor fill)
paragraphs that contain `@w' or `@*' commands.  Note: Refilling
Paragraphs, for further information.