# Any way to turn off code-block indent from emails

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British English starts off each paragraph with an indent. Usually four to five spaces. Another common style is TWO spaces AFTER each full-stop (vs American’s one space).

I have been doing it when writing in English since I was small.

EDIT: Chinese prose starts off each paragraph with TWO spaces, but that is two FULL spaces, mapping to four normal (or half-width) spaces. So many documents will have four spaces for Chinese indents.

EDIT 2:

> Modern English typography usually indicates a new paragraph by [indenting](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indentation_(typesetting)) the first line. This style can be seen in the (handwritten) [United States Constitution](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Constitution) from 1787

> A second common modern English style is to use no indenting, but add vertical white space to create “block paragraphs.”

> **[Paragraph](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paragraph)**
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> A paragraph (from Ancient Greek παράγραφος (parágraphos) 'to write beside') is a self-contained unit of discourse in writing dealing with a particular point or idea. Though not required by the orthographic conventions of any language with a writing system, paragraphs are a conventional means of organizing extended segments of prose.
> Cuneiform is one of the oldest surviving forms of writing. It was used in Mesopotamia to compose a tremendous number of texts on clay tablets, thousands of which sur...

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