How to produce white space for all text lines of an environment?

Question

How can I produce whitespace before each line of an environment. If I have the following command in the preamble

\newenvironment{myenv}
{\vspace{3mm}\hspace{0.5cm}\noindent\ignorespaces\small\texttt}
{\par\noindent\ignorespacesafterend\vspace{0.5mm}}

and in the text:

\begin{myenv}
hello \\
world
\end{myenv}

this produces whitespaces only for the first line.

Answer 1

Perhaps you might be interested in using a combination of \obeylines (so you don't have to manually break the line) and \doublespacing (provided by setspace):

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{lipsum,setspace}% http://ctan.org/pkg/{lipsum,setspace}
\newenvironment{myenv}
{\par\hrulefill\doublespacing\obeylines}
{\hrulefill\par\ignorespacesafterend}
\begin{document}
\lipsum[6]
\begin{myenv}
hello
world
\end{myenv}
\lipsum[6]
\end{document}

The \hrulefill is only to show the start/end of the environment myenv and most likely not needed in your application.

Although the proposed solution does not show the typewriter font, you can issue \ttfamily to achieve this (not \texttt).

Answer 2

Depending on the application a minor problem of Werner's solution is that if a line is longer than the texwith the continuation is not indented. Here is an alternative solution (and comparison with Werner's solution).

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{lipsum}

\newenvironment{myenv}
  {\begin{list}{}{
    \setlength{\topsep}{3mm}
    \setlength{\leftmargin}{0.5cm}
    \small\ttfamily}
    \item[]\hrulefill\\}
  {\hrulefill\end{list}}

\newenvironment{myenvW}
  {\par\hrulefill\obeylines\small\ttfamily}
  {\hrulefill\par\ignorespacesafterend}

\begin{document}

\lipsum[6]
\begin{myenv}
  test\\
  \lipsum[6]
\end{myenv}
\lipsum[6]
\begin{myenvW}
  test
  \lipsum[6]
\end{myenvW}
\end{document}