At 18:58 28/02/2010 +0900, Thomas Blasejewicz wrote:
As far as I know, the thing is called in English a "hanging indent".
You have a number (may NOT be consecutive), an asterisk, a symbol or
whatever at the left margin, then a tab stop to the text. If the
following text covers several lines, the left margin of the text
should be aligned with the tab stop.
There are two ways to do this:
See those two grey triangles at the left margin on the ruler (above
the text)? With the cursor in the relevant paragraph, drag the
bottom one in as far as you want your indent to be. Notice that the
top triangle comes with it. Now drag the top triangle back to the
original margin (or wherever you went it). You can get other
paragraphs to follow the same pattern either by simply pressing Enter
after your styled paragraph, or using the Format Paintbrush.
Alternatively, go to Format | Paragraph... | Indents & Spacing |
Indent (or right-click | Paragraph... | Indents & Spacing |
Indent). Increase "Before text" to a suitable value and reduce
"First line" to the same negative value (or as desired). Or you can
go to right-click | Edit Paragraph Style... | Indents & Spacing |
Indent and so the same thing: this affects all paragraphs with the
same paragraph style.
... the official documentation does not contain the keyword "hanging
indent". Has this a different name under OpenOffice?
That's odd. The help text for Writer in my version has an entry
under "hanging indents in paragraphs".
I trust this helps.
Brian Barker
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