<p>

The <p> tag represents a paragraph, which can contain text and a wide variety of inline tags and functions much like the <p> tag in HTML. This tag is extremely common and most PreTeXt documents contain many <p> tags, because documents typically contain many paragraphs.

Syntax

Variants

There are 2 variants of <p>.

Examples

Our first example shows a paragraph in isolation, containing only plain text, plus one small math expression and one emphasized word.

<p>
    Suppose <m>f</m> were a function on the natural numbers.
    That would make some of us <em>very</em> interested in it.
</p>

But because paragraphs are typically the immediate children of other blocks (including sections, subsections, theorems, etc.) we also include an example in which a few paragraphs sit inside a theorem block.

<theorem>
    <p>Many divisions (including theorems, like in this example) can
    contain more than one paragraph in them.</p>
    <p>This one includes three paragraphs, as an example.  I suppose to
    count as a theorem, we should make a mathematical statement, so...</p>
    <p>If <m>a</m>, <m>b</m>, and <m>c</m> are the side lengths of a right
    triangle in the Euclidean plane, and <m>c</m> corresponds to the
    hypotenuse, then <m>a^2+b^2=c^2</m>.</p>
</theorem>