On Fri, 3 Sep 1999, Richard E. Hawkins wrote:
> I think we started on this one, too. In the latex books I've checked,
> I haven't found a way to have exdented (negative indent) paragraphs
> such as this one, which are the natural format for a number of
> things that I do.
>
> I would expect that there's a trivial way to do this, but I have no
> idea what to look under.
You might have to resort to plain TeX to get what you want. The commands
\hangindent and \hangafter may be appropriate. I don't have my TeX book
handy, but \hangindent sets the amount of indentation and \hangafter sets
how many lines to indent in such a fashion. E.g. to do a dropped capital,
you set them like this to make room for your capital:
\hangindent=3.3em
\hangafter=-3
Now there was some funny business about positive and negative values, and
I think there might have been a third command needed for "exdenting". If
you've got Knuth's TeX book, look around page 100 for all this stuff. I
know he discusses it.
Mike
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