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Sorcerer <lee@annasart.com> writes:

> I'm supporting a writer that used to use emacs, and is going back
> to it. He's looking for a way to format paragraphs with an indent
> at the start of each new paragraph. Are there any major-modes that 
> support this already, 

Yes, `paragraph-indent-text-mode' does exactly that.

> or any documentation that I might read that deals specifically with
> word-processing style writing, instead of programming?

See the "Commands for Human Languages" chapter in the Emacs manual.