How to Temporarily shift text to right in LaTeX?
The Assistant
Here is what I would like to do:
text left margin ........
text left margin ........
these lines are shifted
these lines are shifted
other lines follow.......
other lines follow.......
* The quote environment wont help because line widths are
also shortened.
* Can't use \hspace because there may be too many lines.
* \addtolength{\oddsidemargin} had no effect.
* I solved it with the description environment:
\begin{description}
\item \\
lines to be shifted are placed here.
\end{description}
Is there a better, more flexible solution?
Thanks in advance...
The Assistant
>Here is what I would like to do:
> text left margin ........
> text left margin ........
> these lines are shifted
> these lines are shifted
> other lines follow.......
> other lines follow.......
Many thanks to M.Epstein, B.Clausing, and P.Parker
for sharing their ideas.
A more flexible approach to do the above is to use
the minipage environment:
\hspace*{NN}
\begin{minipage}{MM} % where NN + MM = \textwidth
lines to be shifted, etc.
\end{minipage}
The above can be generalized to:
\hspace*{NN}
\addtolenght{\textwidth}{-NN}
\begin{minipage}{\textwidth}
lines to be shifted, etc.
\end{minipage}
\addtolenght{\textwidth}{+NN}
Regards...
P.S. \advance\leftmargin by NN did not work!
Alex Lange
:
: Here is what I would like to do:
:
: text left margin ........
: text left margin ........
:
: these lines are shifted
: these lines are shifted
:
: other lines follow.......
: other lines follow.......
:
:
: Is there a better, more flexible solution?
:
Use \begin{flushright}
.
.
.
\end{flushright}