Hi Jeff,

I just saw your question about removing paragraph indent, and adding space
between paragraphs. You can do that with the following LaTeX commands:

\setlength{\parskip}{1ex plus 0.5ex minus 0.2ex} %% Add space between
paragraphs

\setlength{\parindent}{0pt} %% Do not indent paragraphs


You can put them at the top of your org document like so:


#+LATEX_HEADER: \setlength{\parskip}{1ex plus 0.5ex minus 0.2ex} %% Add
space between paragraphs

#+LATEX_HEADER: \setlength{\parindent}{0pt} %% Do not indent paragraphs


I hope this helps!


  -Anthony


On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 8:27 AM, Jeff Rush <jrush@taupro.com> wrote:

> I'm trying to export a .org file to .pdf and although I've gotten past
> many formatting hurdles, I am stuck on two problems.
>
> 1) How can I redefine, in my org-export-latex-classes variable, the
> \section definition, such that it includes \pagebreak?
>      My reason is that I would like each of my top-level headings to
> start on a new page, like a new chapter.
>
> 2) How can I change the basic formatting of paragraphs everywhere to
>
>      a) omit the leading indent, and
>      b) have a blank line between paragraphs
>
>     Instead of this strange-looking style:
>
>         This is a test paragraph
>     of the following kind of thing.
>         And so is this one.
>
>     I want it to look like this:
>
>     This is a test paragraph
>     of the following kind of thing.
>       And so is this one.
>
> Thanks for any helpful souls out there.  I'm working on learning LaTeX
> but can't see how the various parts of the "article" base class fit
> together and how to selectively override them.
>
> -Jeff
>
>
>