[texhax] \hangindent inside vertical mode

[VAFA KHALIGHI]

Sorry, this is what I have tried. Giving negatve dimen to \hangindent, only
reduces the width of the vbox.

On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 11:23 AM, VAFA KHALIGHI <vafaklg at gmail.com> wrote:

> but they are not.
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 4:13 AM, Heiko Oberdiek <
> heiko.oberdiek at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 01:14:33AM +1000, VAFA KHALIGHI wrote:
>>
>> > \hangindent-20pt \hangafter0 does not work inside a \vbox. Is the reason
>> > explained somewhere in The TeXBook?
>>
>> Why do you think it does not work?
>> Because -20pt is less than 0pt, the lines will be indented at
>> the right side by 20pt.
>>
>> The TeXbook, "Chapter 14: How TeX Breaks Paragraphs into Lines":
>>
>> | The command `\hangindent=<dimen>' specifies a so-called hanging
>> | indentation, and the command `\hangafter=<number>' specifies the
>> duration
>> | of that indentation. Let x and n be the respective values of \hangindent
>> | and \hangafter, and let h be the value of \hsize; then if n >= 0,
>> hanging
>> | indentation will occur on lines n + 1, n + 2, ... of the paragraph, but
>> if
>> | n < 0 it will occur on lines 1, 2, ... , |n|. Hanging indentation means
>> | that lines will be of width h - |x| instead of their normal width h; if
>> | x >= 0, the lines will be indented at the left margin, otherwise they
>> will
>> | be indented at the right margin. For example, the "dangerous bend"
>> | paragraphs of this manual have a hanging indentation of 3 picas that
>> lasts
>> | for two lines; they were set with \hangindent=3pc and
>> | \hangafter=-2.
>>
>> Yours sincerely
>>  Heiko Oberdiek
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