[Tex/LaTex] Auto indent second line of text after “carriage return.”

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I'm writing a how-to chapter for citing texts in various bibliographic formats. I need to define an environment where the second (and any subsequent) lines will be indented an arbitrary length. I can't figure out how to do this without manually inserting a space for each line; but that is agonizing work. Can someone help me define an environment that will do this for me?

I'd like something like this:

Tate, Larry. "Some fake article that I wrote about." *Journal of Fake 
     Articles*65.4 (1994): 34-56.

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\hangindent3cm
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 aa aa aa aa aa aa aa aa aa aa aa aa aa aa aa aa aa aa aa aa aa aa aa aa
 aa aa aa aa aa aa aa aa aa aa aa aa aa aa aa aa aa aa aa aa aa aa aa aa

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[Tex/LaTex] Line return/spacing after \hrulefill

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\documentclass{article}

\begin{document}

\begin{flushleft}
\Large CptZpBrngn
\hrule
\end{flushleft}
\begin{flushright}
\small 1234 Fake St.
\end{flushright}

\end{document}

Note the rule touched the letters, you could add a blank line then \vspace{2pt} to add some space. Note that size change commands like \Large and \small do not take a {...} argument and should always include the end of the paragraph in their scope otherwise the line spacing will be incorrect.

Or version with no vertical space at all

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\documentclass{article}

\begin{document}

{\raggedright
\Large CptZpBrngn
\hrule
\par
\raggedleft
\small 1234 Fake St.
\par}

\end{document}

[Tex/LaTex] Writing “Proof of . . .” cleanly in svjour3

Using just standard svjour commands and exploiting the fact that \spnewtheorem*{foo}{Foo}{}{} stores Foo as the expansion of \fooname:

\documentclass[smallextended,envcountsame,envcountsect]{svjour3}
\smartqed  % flush right qed marks, e.g. at end of proof

\spnewtheorem*{xproof}{}{\itshape}{\rmfamily}% the label is assigned later
\newcommand\xprooftitle{}
\renewenvironment{proof}[1][\proofname]
 {\renewcommand\xproofname{#1}\xproof}
 {\endxproof}

\begin{document}
\begin{proposition}\label{prop1}
Some proposition.
\end{proposition}
We prove the above proposition with the help of the following lemma (see [citation]).
\begin{lemma}
A useful lemma.
\end{lemma}
\begin{proof}[Proof of Prop.~\ref{prop1}]
This is desired behaviour.\qed
\end{proof}
\end{document}

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The advantage of this approach is that if the people at Springer don't like your change to proof, they'll just need to remove the five lines above. Mark them clearly in the file with comments specifying what you did:

% I redefine the `proof` environment in order that
% \begin{proof}[Proof of the main theorem]
% produces ``Proof of the main theorem'' and not
% ``Proof (Proof of the main theorem)''
\spnewtheorem*{xproof}{}{\itshape}{\rmfamily}% the label is assigned later
\newcommand\xprooftitle{}
\renewenvironment{proof}[1][\proofname]
 {\renewcommand\xproofname{#1}\xproof}
 {\endxproof}
% Comment the five lines above to restore the default behavior of `proof'

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[Tex/LaTex] Line return/spacing after \hrulefill

[Tex/LaTex] Writing “Proof of . . .” cleanly in svjour3

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