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From: templon@copper.ucs.indiana.edu (jeffrey templon)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Need help with LaTeX indentation (vita style)
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Date: 30 Nov 90 22:44:29 GMT
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Hello,

	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.

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.

I have tried tried tried to get LaTeX to do this.  My last try was using
the list environment, and I still can't get it to work (somehow list
shifts the whole THING over, so I do have hanging indent but it's all offset
from the main text!!)  Can someone please tell me how to do this?

While I am here, a plea:  Please make your subject lines more indicative.
For example, a subject line which says 'Hanging Indent in LaTeX' is not
good (I could've used this) because this does not tell your average reader
of comp.text.tex whether you mean 'I want to know how to get LaTeX to do
a hanging indent', or 'read this article and you will discover how to do
hanging indent.'  If you are posting a QUESTION, I request that you either
preface the subject with 'Question:' or 'Q:', or else add a '?' at the end,
or say 'Need Help with ...', something like that.  If you are posting a
solution, you might preface with 'A:' or say 'How to produce Hanging Indent
in LaTeX (SOURCE)' so someone knows you actually have the answer.  This
makes it much easier to get through your morning newsreading quickly.

I am assuming that most of us don't want to spend lots of time reading news,
we actually have other things to do.


				Thanks,		Jeff