Eric S Fraga <esflists@gmail.com> writes:

> On Tuesday,  9 Oct 2018 at 12:06, Sharon Kimble wrote:
>> Brilliant, thanks very much Robert, you've saved the project as I didn't
>> fancy having to work with the document in LibreOffice. These are the
>> settings that I've finally gone with -
>>
>> #+LaTeX_Header: \parskip=0pt
>> #+LaTeX_Header: \parindent=2em
>
> This is close to the default behaviour for the LaTeX article class.  Did you have something setting these to different values?

Yes, I have a custom class called 'my-report' which has no packages
outlined in it, here it is.

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
#+begin_src emacs-lisp
(with-eval-after-load 'ox-latex
(add-to-list 'org-latex-classes
             '("my-report" "\\documentclass{report}
               [NO-DEFAULT-PACKAGES]"
               ;;[EXTRA]"
               ;;("\\part{%s}" . "\\part*{%s}")
               ("\\chapter{%s}" . "\\chapter*{%s}")
               ("\\section{%s}" . "\\section*{%s}")
               ("\\subsection{%s}" . "\\subsection*{%s}")
               ("\\subsubsection{%s}" . "\\subsubsection*{%s}")
               ("\\paragraph{%s}" . "\\paragraph*{%s}")
               ("\\subparagraph{%s}" . "\\subparagraph*{%s}"))))
              (custom-set-variables '(org-export-allow-bind-keywords t))
#+end_src
[2016-04-14 Thu 08:47]
[2016-09-09 Fri 00:54]
[2017-01-17 Tue 13:17]
http://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/org-latex-export.html
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>> except for the first paragraph in a new chapter. 
>
> Yes, the first paragraph after any heading will not be indented.  That is also default and is actually what most books use.

Yes, I'm learning, and checking with the book that I'm currently reading :)

Thanks
Sharon.
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