Is it possible to define a paragraph style
such that the before-text indent
is relative to the before-text indent of the previous line,
or something like that?
I'm not even sure how to express this.

For example, suppose in a hierarchical document (e.g. one of those
horrible army-style 8.13.12.29 arrangements) wherein each heading
is indented relative to the indent of the next-higher-level heading.

At the moment, for the headings,
I've just defined 5 separate paragraph styles
that are essentially identical except font size and space-above,
but most importantly, the before-text indent.

Likewise, for the text below the headings,
I've just defined 5 separate paragraph styles
that are identical except for the before-text indent.

This is kind of annoying, but it's not too too bad.

But then, suppose I define a pair of paragraph styles
for questions and answers.  These have hanging indents,
so that if the question or the answer is longer than one line,
the "Q. " or the "A. " sticks out to the left.
And one or the other has additional spacing before or after.
Looks great.

Now I want to have a group of questions and answers
somewhere under a level-three heading, amidst level-three text.
The Q&A lines are still flush with the left margin.

It would/will be a real pain in the neck
to have to design 5 versions of every paragraph style.
Is there a way around this?


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