Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!uunet!mcsun!ukc!ox-prg!culhua!jg From: jg@prg.ox.ac.uk (Jeremy Gibbons) Newsgroups: comp.text.tex Subject: Re: Need help with LaTeX indentation (vita style) Message-ID: Date: 4 Dec 90 16:08:01 GMT References: <75527@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> Sender: news@prg.ox.ac.uk Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory, UK Lines: 35 In-reply-to: templon@copper.ucs.indiana.edu's message of 30 Nov 90 22:44:29 GMT templon@copper.ucs.indiana.edu (jeffrey templon) asks: > I want to use what my Mac Word Processor calls 'hanging indent'. 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!!) Look at the way `description' works in latex.tex (you only need to make the label non-bold to get what you want, I think). > While I am here, a plea: [...] > 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.' No, but on the other hand, if you (a) know about hanging indent, you may learn from an answer and be able to help the poser of a question (b) don't know about hanging indent, but want to, then you should watch other people's questions (so you understand the applicability of the answer when it arrives, so you can say `me too' if someone asks for email replies etc) anyway (c) don't know about hanging indent and couldn't care less, then you'll skip it anyway... (imho) Jeremy *-----------------------------------------------------------------------* | Jeremy Gibbons (jg@uk.ac.oxford.prg) Funky Monkey Multimedia Corp | *-----------------------------------------------------------------------*