[cl-typesetting-devel] Hanging indent?

[Peter Seibel]

"Marc Battyani" <marc.battyani at fractalconcept.com> writes:

> "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) ...)

Yeah. I found that after I posted. But that doesn't quite do the trick
unless the negative indentation happens to exactly match the width of
the chars I want to stick out. Is there any way, while compiling the
contents to find out things like how wide the "1. " is going to be?

-Peter

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Peter Seibel                                      peter at javamonkey.com

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