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Searching for an indentation problem, I found this question How to add indentation and this answer https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/392800/77017.

In the comments @cfr identified this as a "not so good" answer, because it is lacking glue.

So here is my question: what is glue and why is glue important?

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    I think Section 2 here: tug.org/TUGboat/tb42-1/tb130duck-glue.pdf could be useful Commented Sep 7 at 11:45
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    The question you link is very bad as it can only be answered by guesswork. And the comment you refer to is wrong: both \vspace{6mm} and \hspace*{10mm} are examples of manually inserted glue. Commented Sep 7 at 12:03
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    Thank you @CarLaTeX, the document explains what glue is. Basically it is white space, which can be stretched or shrinked. Commented Sep 7 at 12:14
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    @egreg I thought both of those had zero glue Commented Sep 7 at 12:50
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    @daleif “Glue=Skip” Commented Sep 7 at 13:12

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