Latex Documentclass Article: How to Cut Off Text Lines and Create New Paragraphs

[ladil123]

Hello!

Im writing a technical report with "article" as documentclass in Latex

How can I cut off a line?
I have a long piece of text and I want to cut it of like a new paragraph

how do I do that? I have tried to use // but that's wrong...

thanks

 

[Hootenanny]

Hello!

Im writing a technical report with "article" as documentclass in Latex

How can I cut off a line?
I have a long piece of text and I want to cut it of like a new paragraph

how do I do that? I have tried to use // but that's wrong...

thanks

To start a new paragraph in latex, simply leave a blank line in the source document. A single carriage return has no effect in latex. For example,

This is paragraph one.
This is still paragraph one and will in fact appear on the same line as the previous sentence.

This is paragraph two