[cl-typesetting-devel] Hanging indent?

Marc Battyani marc.battyani at fractalconcept.com
Fri Feb 27 20:40:13 UTC 2004


"Peter Seibel" <peter at javamonkey.com> writes:

> I have a vague recollection I asked about this before but can't find
> it in my archive. Anyway, what's the easiest way to typeset a
> paragraph with a hanging indent. E.g.
>
>
>   1. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. Now is the time for
>      all good men to come to the aid of their party.
>
> As opposed to:
>
>   1. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. Now is the time for
>   all good men to come to the aid of their party.
>

The :first-line-indent argument of paragraph allows you to specify an offset
for the first line. Negative values are ok.

Something like:
(paragraph (:h-align :justified :left-margin 10 :first-line-indent -10) ...)

Marc





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