Re: [WSG] Hanging indents

2008-03-21 Thread Stuart Foulstone
Perhaps you could try nested lists. On Fri, March 21, 2008 1:56 am, Elizabeth Spiegel wrote: Hi all I'm developing a site for a non-profit organisation and one page is their constitution. I'm trying to get the clauses to appear with a hanging indent as they currently do in the word

Re: [WSG] Hanging indents

2008-03-21 Thread Rob Kirton
Elizabeth I believe the solution Mike came up with to be a sound one. However maybe you should step back and think why this should be a web page at all. You are facing the great problem of trying to make the screen look like print. Something which drives most of us up the wall at some point.

Re: [WSG] Hanging indents

2008-03-21 Thread Alastair Campbell
The document could be made available for download as a PDF and also RTF (for accessibility purposes). Joe Clark pulled me up on this, and after checking into it, it is something of a myth that RTF is good for accessibility. RTF has no structure and (if I remember correctly) no means of

Re: [WSG] Hanging indents

2008-03-21 Thread Mike at Green-Beast.com
Hello Rob, facing the great problem of trying to make the screen look like print. Good point. I had that issue with a site I recently made. The client wanted every entry to look like it did in print. For example, the print version used uppercase headings. The client was adding this content

[WSG] Hanging indents

2008-03-20 Thread Elizabeth Spiegel
Hi all I'm developing a site for a non-profit organisation and one page is their constitution. I'm trying to get the clauses to appear with a hanging indent as they currently do in the word version: http://www.dra.org.au/files/QTI5QDJCKU/DRA-Constitution-Amended-10Feb07%20(6 7%20KB).doc. I

Re: [WSG] Hanging indents

2008-03-20 Thread Mike at Green-Beast.com
Hi Elizabeth, I'm trying to get the clauses to appear with a hanging indent Try adding a div to the body of content you want this treatment in (saving on a lot of p.classes and extraneous markup), then put this in the CSS. div.clauses p { margin-left : 50px; text-indent : -40px; } The