Page Layout ⇒ Paragraph indentation....

[corderin]

How to get a paragraph where each line has the same identation from the first to the last line?

The attached file shows what I want and that what I get...

Could somebody help me?

[gmedina]

Hi,

you could use the \parshape TeX primitive, as the following example suggests:

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\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{calc}
\usepackage{lipsum}%just to automatically generate some text

\newlength\mylen
\setlength\mylen{\linewidth}
\addtolength\mylen{-3.8em}%this value is the additive inverse of the second one
                          %used in \parshape below

\begin{document}

\section{Dummy section}
\parshape 1 3.8em \mylen
\noindent text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text

\end{document}

Information on \parshape can be found in the excellent book TeX by topic by Victor Eijkhout.

[corderin]

Than you a lot gmedina!

But, what if I have a long document, I would like not to write this line each praragraph, is there then any other way to indicate LaTeX to format each paragraph of the document that way??

[corderin]

Now I have found this solution,

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\everypar={\parshape 1 3.8em \mylen}

the problem is that it has to be typed each time I write a new section or subsection...

It should be a way to define this for the whole document...

[spkmn]

Hi...

I think maybe you could try looking at it differently. Instead of indenting the paragraphs to the right of the title, try 'outdenting' the title to the left of the paragraphs by using a negative spacing.

James

[corderin]

Thank you,

I haven´t read the forum till today, but casually I had yesterday the this same idea. I guess this would be pretty easier and I will try this.