To indent a block of text, you can use the \addtolength{length_variable}{length} command. For this task, we need to add to the \leftskip value for the block of text. For example, to indent a block of text by 5mm we would do the following: {\addtolength{\leftskip}{5mm} …indented text here… }
Posts Tagged ‘indent’
Indenting a block of text in LaTeX
Posted: 15th August 2009 by Tim in LaTeXTags: document, indent, LaTeX, layout, page, paragraph
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Removing Paragraph Indenting in LaTeX
Posted: 5th July 2009 by Tim in LaTeXTags: indent, LaTeX, layout, par, paragraph
This may seem like a simple request, but I don’t want the first line of each paragraph in my LaTeX documents to be indented. I was surprised to find that I needed to traverse a page and a half of google search results to find the answer. So here it is. LaTeX will classify anything [...]