I want to make an indented paragraph, that is to indent the whole paragraph and not just the first line as happens with \par
. I use geometry
, so I thought that package might have a parameter that regulates the indent. I read through the .log
file of my document and found:
\Gm@cnth=\count186
\Gm@cntv=\count187
\c@Gm@tempcnt=\count188
\Gm@bindingoffset=\dimen277
\Gm@wd@mp=\dimen278
\Gm@odd@mp=\dimen279
\Gm@even@mp=\dimen280
\Gm@layoutwidth=\dimen281
\Gm@layoutheight=\dimen282
\Gm@layouthoffset=\dimen283
\Gm@layoutvoffset=\dimen284
\Gm@dimlist=\toks36
Seeing as I couldn't guess what these were, I came here. I looked at this question and this other one, so I found \hoffset
, but opening a group and changing that seemed to have no effect. Same goes for \Gm@layouthoffset
. Typing:
{\makeatletter\Gm@lmargin=2pt
foo bar baz
\makeatother \\
}
with a \\
just before the {
makes the foo bar baz
typeset, but instead of changing the parameter prints out 113.81102pt=2pt
. So the question is: what are those parameters, how do I use them, can I use them to indent the paragraph as I want, and if not how do I?
geometry
can change the margin for a page or pages but not for a single paragraph. Either use something likechngpage
to adjust the width temporarily or use a customised itemize environment. For example, you could useenumitem
to achieve this kind of effect.quote
orquotation
environment.