[Tex/LaTex] Indenting a whole paragraph

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How do I indent a whole paragraph at the same distance from my left margin, with the simplest command or environment?

Best Answer

Without any additional packages, you could wrap your paragraph in a minipage:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{lipsum}% http://ctan.org/pkg/lipsum
\begin{document}
\lipsum[1]

\hfill\begin{minipage}{\dimexpr\textwidth-3cm}
\lipsum[2]
\xdef\tpd{\the\prevdepth}
\end{minipage}

\prevdepth\tpd\lipsum[3]
\end{document}

In the above example, the paragraph depth correction (via \prevdepth is from How to keep a constant baselineskip when using minipages (or \parboxes)?).

The indent from the left is set to 3cm, but can be modified. Also, if a paragraph indent is required, use \indent within the minipage. All of the afore-mentioned modification can be automated. One caveat is that it will not allow breaking across the page boundary.

A rather crude way of doing it as well is to modify \leftskip:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{lipsum}% http://ctan.org/pkg/lipsum
\begin{document}
\lipsum[1]

\setlength{\leftskip}{3cm}

\lipsum[2]

\setlength{\leftskip}{0pt}

\lipsum[3]
\end{document}

Related Solutions

[Tex/LaTex] Paragraph indenting in an mdframed environment

I wasn't able to use the settings provided by mdframed. So I just defined a new enviroment. I think for changing it in mdframed you would need to patch package internals. Anyway this Solution has no problem with additional spaces.

\documentclass{article}

%\usepackage{lipsum}

\usepackage[framemethod=tikz,%
innerleftmargin=\parindent,%
skipabove=0.6\baselineskip,%
skipbelow=0.6\baselineskip,%
innertopmargin=0.4\baselineskip,%
innerbottommargin=0.4\baselineskip]{mdframed}

\newlength{\defparindent}
\setlength{\defparindent}{\parindent}

% The singleframed environment
\newmdenv[linewidth=0.4pt,%
linecolor=black,%
backgroundcolor=white]{singleframed}

\newenvironment*{singleframedindent}{\begin{singleframed}\setlength{\parindent}{\defparindent}\ignorespaces}{\end{singleframed}}
\begin{document}



    \begin{singleframedindent}
    qwerty\\
    qwerty

    qwerty
    \end{singleframedindent}


\end{document}

Result is: enter image description here

You wouldn't have any problem with the space in your example if you would do:

\begin{singleframed}
\setlength{\parindent}{\defparindent}%
qwerty

qwerty
\end{singleframed}

The new line after setlength is the cause for the additional space. By using the comment tag you don't have any problems.

[Tex/LaTex] Indenting text after numbered paragraphs

Update: KOMA-script version 3.17 (or newer)

With KOMA-Script version the command \othersectionlevelsformat is depreciated. You have to use instead \sectionformat, \subsectionformat etc. So the code changes to

% -*- program: xelatex -*-
\documentclass[english, parskip=full, fontsize=11, DIV12, toc=left, numbers=noenddot]{scrartcl}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage{amsmath}
% just so we can see what is going on for now
\usepackage{showframe}
\usepackage{blindtext}
% tighten up spacing of lists
\usepackage{enumitem}
\setlist{noitemsep}

\setcounter{secnumdepth}{4}
\newcommand\p{\paragraph{}}

\newcommand\secnumindent{1.5cm}
\RedeclareSectionCommands[indent=-\secnumindent]{section,subsection,paragraph}
\RedeclareSectionCommand[afterskip=0pt,counterwithin=subsection]{paragraph}
\renewcommand\sectionformat{\parbox{\secnumindent}{\thesection\autodot}}
\renewcommand\subsectionformat{\parbox{\secnumindent}{\thesubsection\autodot}}
\renewcommand\subsubsectionformat{\parbox{\secnumindent}{\thesubsubsection\autodot}}
\renewcommand\paragraphformat{\parbox{\secnumindent}{\theparagraph\autodot}}

% from the answer of @Steven:
\addtolength\hoffset{\secnumindent}
\addtolength\textwidth{-\secnumindent}
%
% make sure paragraphs reset counting also at sections    
%
\makeatletter
\@addtoreset{paragraph}{section}
\makeatother
% to reset headwidth and footwidth
\usepackage[
  headwidth=\the\textwidth+\secnumindent:-\secnumindent,
  footwidth=head:-\secnumindent,
  headsepline,% to show the headwidth
  footsepline% to show the footwidth
]{scrlayer-scrpage}
%
% AND NOW WE BEGIN
%
\begin{document}
\section{Section}
\subsection {Subsection}\label{sec:first}
\p \blindtext
% a reference
\p See \ref{sec:first}
% an example numbered paragraph with an embedded list
\p \blindtext
\begin{itemize}
\item Item 1
\item Item 2
\item Item 3
\end{itemize}
and some words at the end of this para

% an example numbered paragraph with a simple equation
\p The period is defined by a pair of days ($D_l$, $D_u$) where 
\begin{align*}
D_{l} & =  \text{the lower date}  \\
D_{u} & =  \text{the upper date}
\end{align*}
and things happen for all days $d$ where $D_l <= d< D_u$. 
\section{Next section}
\subsection{Next subsection}
\p \blindtext
\end{document}

The result is the same as in the picture below.

If this should be compilable with versions 3.15 and 3.16 too insert

\renewcommand\othersectionlevelsformat[3]{\parbox{\secnumindent}{#3\autodot}}
\providecommand\sectionformat{}\providecommand\subsectionformat{}
\providecommand\subsubsectionformat{}\providecommand\paragraphformat{}

just before redefining \sectionformat etc.

KOMA-script version 3.15 and 3.16

You can use the new commands \RedeclareSectionCommand or \RedeclareSectionCommands and redefine \othersectionlevelsformat. So it is still possible to refer to a section number by \ref:

\setcounter{secnumdepth}{4}
\newcommand\p{\paragraph{}}

\newcommand\secnumindent{1.5cm}
\RedeclareSectionCommands[indent=-\secnumindent]{section,subsection,paragraph}
\RedeclareSectionCommand[afterskip=0pt,counterwithin=subsection]{paragraph}
\renewcommand\othersectionlevelsformat[3]{\parbox{\secnumindent}{#3\autodot}}

% from the answer of @Steven:
\addtolength\hoffset{\secnumindent}
\addtolength\textwidth{-\secnumindent}
%
% make sure paragraphs reset counting also at sections    
%
\makeatletter
\@addtoreset{paragraph}{section}
\makeatother

To reset the original headwidth and footwidth you can use

\usepackage[
  headwidth=\the\textwidth+\secnumindent:-\secnumindent,
  footwidth=head:-\secnumindent,
  headsepline,% to show the headwidth
  footsepline% to show the footwidth
]{scrlayer-scrpage}

enter image description here

Code:

% -*- program: xelatex -*-
\documentclass[english, parskip=full, fontsize=11, DIV12, toc=left, numbers=noenddot]{scrartcl}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage{amsmath}
% just so we can see what is going on for now
\usepackage{showframe}
\usepackage{blindtext}
% tighten up spacing of lists
\usepackage{enumitem}
\setlist{noitemsep}

\setcounter{secnumdepth}{4}
\newcommand\p{\paragraph{}}

\newcommand\secnumindent{1.5cm}
\RedeclareSectionCommands[indent=-\secnumindent]{section,subsection,paragraph}
\RedeclareSectionCommand[afterskip=0pt,counterwithin=subsection]{paragraph}
\renewcommand\othersectionlevelsformat[3]{\parbox{\secnumindent}{#3\autodot}}

% from the answer of @Steven:
\addtolength\hoffset{\secnumindent}
\addtolength\textwidth{-\secnumindent}
%
% make sure paragraphs reset counting also at sections    
%
\makeatletter
\@addtoreset{paragraph}{section}
\makeatother
% to reset headwidth and footwidth
\usepackage[
  headwidth=\the\textwidth+\secnumindent:-\secnumindent,
  footwidth=head:-\secnumindent,
  headsepline,% to show the headwidth
  footsepline% to show the footwidth
]{scrlayer-scrpage}
%
% AND NOW WE BEGIN
%
\begin{document}
\section{Section}
\subsection {Subsection}\label{sec:first}
\p \blindtext
% a reference
\p See \ref{sec:first}
% an example numbered paragraph with an embedded list
\p \blindtext
\begin{itemize}
\item Item 1
\item Item 2
\item Item 3
\end{itemize}
and some words at the end of this para

% an example numbered paragraph with a simple equation
\p The period is defined by a pair of days ($D_l$, $D_u$) where 
\begin{align*}
D_{l} & =  \text{the lower date}  \\
D_{u} & =  \text{the upper date}
\end{align*}
and things happen for all days $d$ where $D_l <= d< D_u$. 
\section{Next section}
\subsection{Next subsection}
\p \blindtext
\end{document}

KOMA-Script version 3.14 (or older)

Here is another suggestion using the answer by @Steven but redefining \othersectionlevelsformat instead of \thesection. So it is still possible to refer to a section number by \ref:

\newcommand\p{\paragraph{}\hspace*{-1em}}

\newcommand\secnumindent{1.5cm}
\renewcommand\othersectionlevelsformat[3]{\makebox[0pt][r]{\parbox{\secnumindent}{#3\autodot}}}
% from the answer of @Steven:
\addtolength\hoffset{\secnumindent}
\addtolength\textwidth{-\secnumindent}

Code:

% -*- program: xelatex -*-
\documentclass[english, parskip=full, fontsize=11, DIV12, toc=left, numbers=noenddot]{scrartcl}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage{amsmath}
% just so we can see what is going on for now
\usepackage{showframe}
\usepackage{blindtext}
% tighten up spacing of lists
\usepackage{enumitem}
\setlist{noitemsep}

\setcounter{secnumdepth}{4}
\renewcommand\theparagraph{\thesubsection.\arabic{paragraph}}
\newcommand\p{\paragraph{}\hspace*{-1em}}

\newcommand\secnumindent{1.5cm}
\renewcommand\othersectionlevelsformat[3]{\makebox[0pt][r]{\parbox{\secnumindent}{#3\autodot}}}
% from the answer of @Steven:
\addtolength\hoffset{\secnumindent}
\addtolength\textwidth{-\secnumindent}
% to reset headwidth and footwidth
\usepackage[
  headwidth=\the\textwidth+\secnumindent:-\secnumindent,
  footwidth=head:-\secnumindent,
  headsepline,% to show the headwidth
  footsepline% to show the footwidth
]{scrlayer-scrpage}
%
% make sure paragraphs reset counting at section and subsections
%
\makeatletter
\@addtoreset{paragraph}{subsection}
\@addtoreset{paragraph}{section}
\makeatother
%
% AND NOW WE BEGIN
%
\begin{document}
\section{Section}
\subsection {Subsection}\label{sec:first}
\p \blindtext
% a reference
\p See \ref{sec:first}
% an example numbered paragraph with an embedded list
\p \blindtext
\begin{itemize}
\item Item 1
\item Item 2
\item Item 3
\end{itemize}
and some words at the end of this para

% an example numbered paragraph with a simple equation
\p The period is defined by a pair of days ($D_l$, $D_u$) where 
\begin{align*}
D_{l} & =  \text{the lower date}  \\
D_{u} & =  \text{the upper date}
\end{align*}
and things happen for all days $d$ where $D_l <= d< D_u$. 
\section{Next section}
\subsection{Next subsection}
\p \blindtext
\end{document}

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[Tex/LaTex] Paragraph indenting in an mdframed environment

[Tex/LaTex] Indenting text after numbered paragraphs

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