Being new to LateX (I have been playing around for less than a week), Im looking for an end-all method to format the indentation for an entire document. This would include:
- subsection indentation,
- paragraph indentation (first line and hanging),
- list indentation,
- list item indentation (first line and hanging),
- table indentation,
- float indentation,
- paragraph indentation which includes a wrapped figure/picture,
So far I just cant seem to get all of these things to work all at the same time.
One method I tried using was encapsulating all my paragraphs in:
{\leftskip=0.3in
first paragraph
second paragraph
list
third paragraph (embedded picture)
}
However that left me unable to indent first lines and lists.
Another method I tried was this
\newenvironment{zz}
{\list{}{\leftmargin=0.3in \rightmargin=0in}%
\item\relax}
{\endlist}
begin{zz}
first paragraph
second paragraph
list
third paragraph (imbedded picture)
end{zz}
But now my text flows right over my pictures. (also, if someone could point out why \list{} does anything without a \begin starting it that would be very handy).
the methods I am fiddling with right now feel very crude. Is there a way to declare a global formatting for all paragraphs based upon its "Level of Depth"?
Lastly, I cannot find a good resource that is just a reference database of commands, their options, the arguments they take, and how to use/what to use them for. For lack of a better description, something similar to how for java programming, you can find almost anything on http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/util/package-summary.html.
Help would be greatly appreciated.
zzis the right thing (it is the definition of thequoteenvironment more or less, setting\leftskipdirectly in latex is just wring and will lead to pain:-) It is hard to know what you mean by "level of depth" your examples don't show any nesting, or multiple paragraphs\list, apart from some error checking\begin{zzzz}is just\begingroup\zzzzso it often is convenient to use\zzzzdirectly if you know what you are doing and know you don't need the grouping in some context that has already supplied a group.texdocis your best friend.texdoc <package name>will 'describe' the package you give it; it will pull up the full manual (almost always as a PDF) that explains the package. For your indentation, I'd use a combination ofgeometry,titlesecandenum????(there is a package that deals specifically with lists), keeping in mind that you can have 'negative' indentation for the first line.