Hello,
Thanks for replying but while what you say is correct, it doesn't solve
the problem.
As I said, what I'm trying to achieve is have the first line indented of
all paragraphs but the first. This is why I am setting \parindent to
2em. In your reply you left out an important line... the one where I
have used \noindent to suppress the indent of the first line of the
first paragraph (which was supposed to help me achieve the effect I
wanted). The whole definition (repeated from my original email) is this:
ParIndent MM
LeftMargin MMMMM
RightMargin MMMMM
Preamble
\newenvironment{authorsays}{%
\begin{center}%
\begin{minipage}{0.5\columnwidth}%
\setlength{\parindent}{2em}%
\itshape\noindent%
}{
\end{minipage}
\end{center}
}
EndPreamble
I also said that the first line is indented by a small amount. I should
maybe have been more precise and said that it was being indented by much
less than 2em. The attached GIF shows the problem. The first paragraph
is the normal/standard full-width paragraph. The second and third
paragraphs are formatted by the layout I quoted. Note that the first of
these has only a tiny indent compared to the second one (which has the
full 2em indent).
Isn't \parindent set to zero anyway inside a minipage? Or am I
misunderstanding what you suggested.
Peter (who likes being on a first name basis with everyone)
On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 07:53:31AM +0200, Andre Poenitz wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 11:21:56AM +1000, Peter wrote:
> > Shape Italic
> > EndFont
> > ParIndent MM
> > LeftMargin MMMMM
> > RightMargin MMMMM
> > Preamble
> > \newenvironment{authorsays}{%
> > \begin{center}%
> > \begin{minipage}{0.5\columnwidth}%
> > \setlength{\parindent}{2em}%
>
> Here you explicitly order a paragraph indent of 2em (approximately the
> twice the width of the letter 'm'.
>
> Set that to '0em' if you don't want any space there.
>
> Andre', usually not responding to people without surnames.
