Fred Janon wrote:
> I generated a chapter and a section that gives me this:
> 
> 1.1 Section 1: School-Level Environment Questionnaire
> The first part of the questionnaire
> 
> I want to align the title text "Section 1:..." with the text underneath 
> "The first part of the..."
> I know I can set the indent value of the section, but I want to set it 
> automatically so it aligns with the first letter of the section title. 
> At the moment I have to test it with different values to find the best 
> ident value:
> 
>          Paragraph section1title = new Paragraph("Section 1: 
> School-Level Environment Questionnaire");
>          Section section1 = chapter1.addSection(section1title, 2);
>         
>  section1.setNumberStyle(Section.NUMBERSTYLE_DOTTED_WITHOUT_FINAL_DOT);
>          *section1.setIndentation(20.f);*
>          Paragraph section1para1 = new Paragraph("The first part of the 
> questionnaire");
>          section1para1.setAlignment(Element.ALIGN_JUSTIFIED);
>          section1para1.setSpacingBefore(18.f);
>          section1.add(section1para1);
> ...
> 
> I tried to set the indent of the section title, but it indents the whole 
> thing, the number "1.1" and the title "Section 1:.."

The title is one (and only one) Paragraph constructed in the method 
Section.constructTitle() where the numbers are concatenated with the 
rest of the title. Maybe you could use a TAB Chunk to the title to 
create a separation between the numbers and the actual title.
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