Indenting a \raggedright paragraph?
Brian Malott
I'm using latex (KLyx) and I'm wondering how I can indent all paragraphs
that are using the \raggedright "environment". I'm new to latex, and barely
used to tex, so I do not know all of these new macros, and cannot even
program one too well yet. :)
I seem to be able to do it by adding a "\( \quad\ )\( \: )\( \: )" to the
beginning of each paragraph, but that is getting tiresome. :)
Actually, I just need it to do the standards for the MLA research paper
<http://www.mla.org>, so if anyone knows (or has created) an MLA macro
package, then let me know about it. :) (I'm still interested in how to
create the macro for the above though...).
Piet van Oostrum
BM> Hi.
BM> I'm using latex (KLyx) and I'm wondering how I can indent all paragraphs
BM> that are using the \raggedright "environment". I'm new to latex, and barely
BM> used to tex, so I do not know all of these new macros, and cannot even
BM> program one too well yet. :)
\begin{raggedright}\setlength{\parindent}{20pt} % or whatever you want.
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Martin Schroeder
>>>>>> "Brian Malott" <bri...@SPAM-BLOCKpvtnetworks.net> (BM) writes:
>BM> Hi.
>BM> I'm using latex (KLyx) and I'm wondering how I can indent all paragraphs
>BM> that are using the \raggedright "environment". I'm new to latex, and barely
>BM> used to tex, so I do not know all of these new macros, and cannot even
>BM> program one too well yet. :)
>\begin{raggedright}\setlength{\parindent}{20pt} % or whatever you want.
\usepackage{ragged2e}
\setlength{\RaggedRightParindent}{1em}
\RaggedRight
raggedright isn't an environment; you should use flushleft (or FlushLeft with
ragged2e).
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Martin
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Donald Arseneau
>In <wzhfypz...@kemmel.cs.uu.nl> Piet van Oostrum <pi...@cs.uu.nl> writes:
>>\begin{raggedright}\setlength{\parindent}{20pt} % or whatever you want.
>
>\usepackage{ragged2e}
>\setlength{\RaggedRightParindent}{1em}
>\RaggedRight
Why is the \raggedright command not replaced? Defining
a separate \RaggedRight goes against the point of having
packages control the layout *for the same document*.
(Of course, \raggedright (amd minipage) should not touch the
parindent, but that won't change.)
>raggedright isn't an environment; you should use flushleft
Any command can be used as an environment. \begin{flushleft}
adds spacing that is probably not desired.
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Christophe Broult
> In article <Kqv71AL...@dream.kn-bremen.de>,
> m...@dream.kn-bremen.de (Martin Schroeder) writes...
[...]
> >
> >\usepackage{ragged2e}
> >\setlength{\RaggedRightParindent}{1em}
> >\RaggedRight
>
> Why is the \raggedright command not replaced? Defining
\usepackage[NewCommands]{ragged2e} % does that.
Chris
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Martin Schroeder
>In article <Kqv71AL...@dream.kn-bremen.de>, m...@dream.kn-bremen.de (Martin Schroeder) writes...
>>\setlength{\RaggedRightParindent}{1em}
>>\RaggedRight
>Why is the \raggedright command not replaced? Defining
>a separate \RaggedRight goes against the point of having
>packages control the layout *for the same document*.
ragged2e is compatible to its predecessor raggedright.sty (which defined
only \RaggedRight) as a default.
But it has the option NewCommands which does just what you suggest.
>(Of course, \raggedright (amd minipage) should not touch the
>parindent, but that won't change.)
>>raggedright isn't an environment; you should use flushleft
>Any command can be used as an environment. \begin{flushleft}
>adds spacing that is probably not desired.
Using commands as environments can cause severe problems.
E.g. what happens when you omit the \par after \end{raggedright}? :->
Best regards
Martin
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Brian Malott
Martin Schroeder wrote in message ...
>
>>BM> Hi.
>>BM> I'm using latex (KLyx) and I'm wondering how I can indent all
paragraphs
>>BM> that are using the \raggedright "environment". I'm new to latex, and
barely
>>BM> used to tex, so I do not know all of these new macros, and cannot even
>>BM> program one too well yet. :)
>
>
>\setlength{\RaggedRightParindent}{1em}
>\RaggedRight
>
with
>ragged2e).
Thanks Martin and Piet. It is working fine now.
All I use is this (in the preamble):
\raggedright
\setlength{\parindent}{1 em}
(and a few other things to fix up MLA format)...