### 3.6.3 Paragraph Indenting

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).

`none`
0

  Omit all indentation.

n

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

The default value of indent is 3. `@paragraphindent` is ignored for HTML output.

It is best to write the `@paragraphindent` command before the end-of-header line at the beginning of a Texinfo file, so the region formatting commands indent paragraphs as specified. See Start of Header.

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. See Refilling Paragraphs, for further information.