[Tex/LaTex] Hanging indents in bibliography

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I can't imagine this isn't covered elsewhere, but for the life of my I can't find it. (Forgive me, I'm very new to LaTeX.)

I'm running pandoc to generate PDFs based on a markdown document, but right now my bibliography is being formatted just like another other paragraph: leading indent, no space between entries. I'd like to format it with hanging indents and a slight space between sections. It seems like that should be default behavior, but even when I strip away the LaTeX template to bare bones, I can't get the bibliography to behave properly.

I'm running the memoir class, and using the chicago-fullnotes-bibliography style. I'm wondering if there's either a way to change default bibliography behavior, or hack a different indent pattern for that section of the document.

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I'm not sure what 'chicago-fullnotes-bibliography' is, but if it is based on biblatex, the following lengths are probably what you want to redefine to your liking:

\setlength{\bibhang}{11pt}% the hanging indent
\setlength{\bibitemsep}{6pt}% the separation b/w basic items
\setlength{\bibinitsep}{\baselineskip}% insert blank line between different initial letters

These will work with the memoir class; change the lengths to suit your needs.

If you are not using biblatex, but need to follow the Chicago style, I recommend you switch sooner rather than later to biblatex and biber, and use the biblatex-chicago contributed style. It implements CMS 16th ed., and is under active development. The author is also responsive to feedback about potential problems.

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[Tex/LaTex] hanging indents

Use \hangindent=13pt (use any size you wish instead of 13pt for example 1em or 0.3cm}

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[absolute,showboxes]{textpos}
\pagestyle{empty}

\TPGrid[1in,1in]{2}{20}
\TPMargin{4pt}
\setlength{\parindent}{0pt}

\begin{document}
  \begin{textblock}{1}(0,2)
   {\scshape\large Name}
    \newline
    {\addtolength{\leftskip}{12pt}
      Address 1\\
      Address 2
      \par
    }
  \end{textblock}
  \begin{textblock}{1}(0,4)
    {\scshape\large Name}
      \newline
      \hangindent=13pt
      Address 1\\
      Address 2
  \end{textblock}
\end{document}

You can also use \hangafter=2 in conjunction with hangindent to effect the indentation from the second line only etc.

The OP also asked why adjusting \leftskip did not work, this is because it was applied within a paragraph, if we break the text into two paragraphs by leaving a blank line, the OP's example would also work as per the example below:

\begin{textblock}{1}(0,2)
   {\scshape\large Name}
    \newline


    {\addtolength{\leftskip}{30pt}
      Address 1\\
      Address 2
      \par
    }

[Tex/LaTex] Hanging indents for \section headings

Here is a solution using the titlesec package inspired by @egreg's comment.

The title text is indented by extra 1em. For the first line, this extra indentation is cancelled by \hspace{-1em}. With section number:

      <-- -1em
1.1   The first line of title
         the second line...
   -----> 2em

Without section number:

<-- -1em
The first line of title
   the second line...
--> 1em

Code:

\documentclass[final]{book}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage{titlesec}

\titleformat{name=\section}
  {\normalfont\Large\bfseries}{\thesection}{2em}{\hspace{-1em}}{}
\titleformat{name=\section,numberless}
  {\normalfont\Large\bfseries}{}{1em}{\hspace{-1em}}{}
\titleformat{name=\subsection}
  {\normalfont\large\bfseries}{\thesubsection}{2em}{\hspace{-1em}}{}
\titleformat{name=\subsection,numberless}
  {\normalfont\large\bfseries}{}{1em}{\hspace{-1em}}{}
\titleformat{name=\subsubsection}
  {\normalfont\bfseries}{\thesubsubsection}{2em}{\hspace{-1em}}{}
\titleformat{name=\subsubsection,numberless}
  {\normalfont\bfseries}{}{1em}{\hspace{-1em}}{}

\begin{document}

\section*{Very long section heading that takes two or more lines when it is typeset on page}
\subsection*{Very long section heading that takes two or more lines when it is typeset on page}
\subsubsection*{Very long section heading that takes two or more lines when it is typeset on page}
\lipsum

\end{document}

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