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From: eijkhout@s41.csrd.uiuc.edu (Victor Eijkhout)
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Subject: Re: Need help with LaTeX indentation (vita style)
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Date: 1 Dec 90 00:39:27 GMT
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templon@copper.ucs.indiana.edu (jeffrey templon) writes:

>	I am trying to come up with a LaTeX style (or actually just some
>definitions to put in the preamble) which will style the document as
>a curriculum vita (this is what we academic geebs call resumes).  I have
>solved a few problems, such as trying to get the paragraphs not to indent,
>getting it to use sans-serif font instead of Times; I am stuck on this
>next one.

Sans-serif instead of Times? I presume you mean sans-serif instead
of roman... Getting TeX to do Times is a bit hard for most people
to start with.

>I want to use what my Mac Word Processor calls 'hanging indent' - this means
>that the first line is NOT indented, but the rest are.  This seems to make
>the organization more apparent; the first line of each point is flush left,
>but each additional line in a given point is offset or indented to the right
>by some nice space.

This is one of those features that appear in pure TeX, but are
not treated in the LaTeX book, which treats only the additions
to pure TeX that make up LaTeX.

Getting hanging indentation is easy:
\hangafter=1 \hangindent=2cm
in front of your paragraph is enough to get all lines after the
first one to indent over 2cm. Actually, the first line is
default, so you can leave that one out.

Note: these parameters are reset after each paragraph, so you have
to give that command for each paragraph.
Note also: even with these specifications, the ordinary indentation
will still be inserted. So be sure to add a \noindent.

These parametrs have more gadgets: a negative value of \hangafter
means: leave (minus) this many lines unindented, then start indenting,
and negative \hangindent means indent from the right.
Read the TeXbook for the details.

>While I am here, a plea:  Please make your subject lines more indicative.

Simple rule of interpretation: is a subject line sounds
interesting, the message contains only ``who can tell me something
about''. If you have seen such a subject line, wait for the resonses.

Victor.