templon@copper.ucs.indiana.edu (jeffrey templon) (12/01/90)
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
eijkhout@s41.csrd.uiuc.edu (Victor Eijkhout) (12/01/90)
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.
jg@prg.ox.ac.uk (Jeremy Gibbons) (12/05/90)
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 | *-----------------------------------------------------------------------*