General ⇒ Hanging indentation

[daviddoria]

I want the text after the lecture X to be indented so that it is all to the right of X, e.g.

Lecture 1 - Some topic blah blah more text
more text more text

Lecture 2 - Some topic blah blah more text
more text more text

I tried this:

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\documentclass[10pt]{article}

\usepackage{float}

\begin{document}
\textbf{Calendar/Topics}
\hangindent=1cm
\hangafter1

Lecture 1 - System Configuration/General Information: Compiling and linking. Using the build system. Environment setup.

Lecture 2 - Memory management \& Smart Pointers

\end{document}

but the result is not correct. Anyone know how to do this?

Thanks,

Dave

[localghost]

I suggest to use an enumerate environment customized by the enumitem package.

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\documentclass[11pt,a4paper,english]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage{blindtext}
\usepackage{enumitem}

\begin{document}
  \blindtext
  \begin{enumerate}[label={Lecture \arabic* -- },leftmargin=*]
    \item System Configuration/General Information: Compiling and linking. Using the build system. Environment setup.
    \item Memory management \& Smart Pointers
  \end{enumerate}
\end{document}

Best regards
Thorsten

[daviddoria]

Excellent, that is very cool, thanks!