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From: glenn@rigel.econ.uga.edu (Glenn F. Leavell)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Indenting references correctly
Message-ID: <1991May9.145412.10556@rigel.econ.uga.edu>
Date: 9 May 91 14:54:12 GMT
Sender: glenn@rigel.econ.uga.edu (Glenn F. Leavell)
Organization: University of Georgia Economics Department
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I recently wrote:

>What is the easiest way to format references in TeX so that the 2nd and
>all subsequent lines of each entry are indented?

Thanks to the following for responding with suggestions:

	Victor Eijkhout <eijkhout@s41.csrd.uiuc.edu>
	Thomas Ridgeway <haccme@milton.u.washington.edu>
	Patrick Palmer <ppalmer@oskar.uchicago.edu>
	Ian Turton <ian@castle.edinburgh.ac.uk>
	Julian Cowley  <julian@uhunix.uhcc.hawaii.edu>

Based on the responses that I received, there seem to be two basic ways
to do this.  Thanks to Patrick Palmer and Julian Cowley for the suggestion 
of creating a definition like this:

	\def\ref{\medskip\noindent\hang}

Then, one can type something like this:

	\ref First reference entry
	\ref Next reference entry
	\ref
	Another reference entry

In the definition above, \hang will make the lines indent by the amount
of \parindent.  If you want to use a different amount, you could use
something like this:

	\def\ref{\medskip\noindent\hangindent=5tp}

The next method does not involve using definitions.  This method involves
changing the left margin, and then making the first line indent by
a negative amount accross the margin.  Thanks to Tom Ridgeway for this one:

	{\advance\leftskip by \parindent
	\parindent=-\parindent
	First reference entry
	\medskip
	Next reference entry
	\medskip
	Another reference entry\medskip}

I also received a couple of suggestions that I could not get to work.  This
is probably due to something that I don't understand about TeX, so I'll 
include them for the rest of you.

Thanks to Ian Turton:
Use \item before each reference entry like this:
	\item First reference entry
	\item Next reference entry
	\item Another reference entry

Thanks to Victor Eijkhout.  Use the following:
	\hangafter=1 \hangindent=\parindent


Again, thanks to everyone who replied.

--Glenn Leavell
  glenn@rigel.econ.uga.edu