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How can I indent a block of text for a specified amount? [duplicate]
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Indenting a whole paragraph
Write text with some fixed amount of space from the margin
I would like to indent a paragraph or two for a specific amount.
The quote ...
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Align the text in a simple way [duplicate]
I wonder if you have a more practical way of doing the following:
Indent the text in 4cm
Maintaining justified alignment
The text should occupy all available space except the edges and 4cm
Something ...
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Tab a Complete Paragraph [duplicate]
don't get mad please as I always don't share a MWE. Actually, I am working on a LaTeX file which has several themes associated to it and so it is a bit difficult to put up a MWE.
What I wanted to ...
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Fully justification with indent paragraph [duplicate]
I am using the package ragged2e and then \justify to get fully justification of my text but it's seems that is avoiding the indentation.
My code:
\documentclass[a4paper,12pt,onecolumn]{report}
\...
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How to keep a constant baselineskip when using minipages (or \parboxes)?
When a minipage is used to box a text paragraph, the first line of the minipaged text and the last line of the previous text paragraph are closer than two consecutive lines in a standard text ...
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How can I indent the whole paragraph instead of only one line?
To comply with the braindead thesis style guide for my university, I need to be able to indent a whole paragraph using the same indentation level that is used to indent the first line in regular ...
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\addtolength{\leftskip}{2em} does not apply to equations in the paragraph
I have a paragraph which should be emphasized using left and right skips. Thereby I recognized that it simply ignores equations in this paragraph. Is this reasonable?
\documentclass{article}
\...
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indentation of a whole paragraph
My problem is that I would like to write something like in LaTeX:
But I can't seem to do it wihtout reading like:
Which is pretty anoying to do all the time, in the middle of writting. Is there a ...
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How to configure/redefine the quotation environment to cite?
I want to redefine the quotation or quote environment so that I have a different presentation style, such as big quotes or all italics, right aligned, etc.
I also want to cite the source (a real cite,...
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Own environment with own label
I want to have an environment for strategies. So far I used the package ntheorem to define such an environment.
I use it like this:
\begin{strategy}[bla]
bla bla
\end{strategy}
And get:
<...
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Why does indenting a paragraph compound on subsequent paragraphs?
I'm attempting to indent cases and subcases of a proof by 1.3cm. However, when I apply adjustwidth to a subcase, it seems to affect the subcase following it.
Here is how it looks with my current code:...
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How to correctly insert and justify abstract paragraph on my bibliography?
I am trying to add abstracts to my bibliography, I found these questions for help:
Bibliography Style with abstract and numbered references
What is wrong with the "abstract" field?
But ...
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Package geometry parameters and changing left margin
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 ...
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Changing margin for a part of page only
I would like to change the margin for an image only, I've used
\newgeometry{left=0.5cm,bottom=0.1cm,right=0.5cm}
\includegraphics{tada.png}
\restoregeometry
But it affects an entire page
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aligning question numbers, paragraphs
I am typing up a sheet of course problems, and wanted to offset the question numbers from the text of my solutions slightly.
Based upon an answer to this question, I tried adjusting leftskip. The ...