Text Formatting ⇒ List with Hanging Indent and no Item Labels

[rdonohoe]

I am looking to manually write a bibliography because the style is complex and I don't have the skills to make my own bibliography style file so I am making a list which I would like no label and the first line of each list item indented 1em and the subsequent lines (if any) to indent 2em.

I am having trouble doing this. I have tried \usepackage{enumitem} but can't find any combination of options to do what I am looking for.

Anyone have any advice.

[localghost]

If you need to implement a very special bibliography style, you may take a look at the biblatex package. It lets you customize your bibliography by LaTeX macros, which might be easier than generating a new style by custom-bib or manipulate an existing style.

Off the top of my head I can offer a solution without a package.

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

\newenvironment{biblist}{%
  \begin{list}{}{%
    \setlength{\labelwidth}{0pt}%
    \setlength{\labelsep}{1em}%
    \setlength{\leftmargin}{2em}%
    \setlength{\itemindent}{-1em}%
  }
}{\end{list}}

\begin{document}
  \blindtext

  \begin{biblist}
    \item \blindtext
  \end{biblist}

  \blindtext
\end{document}

This customized list only regards basic settings corresponding to your information.

The blindtext package is only used for generating some dummy text, thus is not part of the solution.


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten