[Tex/LaTex] How to do hanging indents in Context

contextindentation

How do I do hanging indents in Context? I've been looking at the few examples that I've found, for example at http://wiki.contextgarden.net/MLA_style, but couldn't get anything to work as I want it. Also the workscited function in Context is not my way to go.

I simply want to do a hanging indent, and can't find a straight forward way to do this. Below is a desperate (minimal not working) example trying to use TeX hangindent.

\setupindenting[1em]
\setuppapersize[A5][A5]


\starttext
\indenting[yes, next] % turn on regular indenting of first line of paragraph, excluding the first paragraph

\subject{A normal section}

This paragraph is not indented since it is the first one!

Hello and miau, this is the second paragraph that is indented by exactly one em, isn't it?

\subject{Works cited}

% We want those to be indented hanging: The first line should begin at the margin while following lines of each paragraph is indented by one em.

\hangindent=1em
\hangafter=1

Jaynes, Julian. {\os 1990}. {\em The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind}. New York City: Houghton Mifflin Company.

Pye, David. {\os 1995}. {\em The Nature and Art of Workmanship}. London: The Herbert Press.

Persson, Tomas. {\os 2008}. {\em Pictorial Primates: A Search for Iconic Abilities in Great Apes}. Lund: Lund University Cognitive Studies.

\stoptext

Would be grateful for any help with this! Thank you!

Best Answer

ConTeXt environments like definition, enumeration, list, etc. provide a key for controlling hanging, but there is no environment that sets hanging for all paragraphs.

Setting the TeX primitive \hangindent and \hangafter the way you do does not work because TeX resets the hanging indent at each paragraph! So to set hanging indent for one paragraph, remove the blank spaces after the \hang... macros. So

\hangindent=1em
\hangafter=1
% No new paragraph here!
Jaynes, Julian. {\os 1990}. {\em The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind}. New York City: Houghton Mifflin Company.

So, if you want hanging indent for multiple paragraphs, use

\EveryPar{\hangafter=1\hangindent=1em\relax}

In either case disable normal indentation using \setupindenting[no]

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