[Tex/LaTex] set hanging indent for more than one paragraph at a time

indentationparagraphs

is there a way to start every paragraph in a document with a hanging indent, without defining this for each and every paragraph?
Is this possible without any extra packages loaded or such?

And, while we're at it: is it possible to start an area of, say, 10 out of 100 paragraphs in a row, with a hanging indent, where the rest of the paragraphs don't start with a hanging indent?

EDIT:

So I want is: 10 paragraphs with hanging indent, 90 paragraphs without hanging indent. Is this accomplishable:

without defining this for every paragraph separately
loading extra packages

Best Answer

I am sure it is possible by some TeX programming. On the other hand, the hanging package already does most of what you are asking for. Just put all body text, or any number of paragraphs to be hung, inside a \hangparas environment.

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I would use the adjustwidth environment from the changepage package:

\begin{adjustwidth}{<left margin>}{<right margin>}
...
\end{adjustwidth}

The entire contents of adjustwidth are indented from the left margin by <left margin> and from the right margin by <right margin>. Here's a minimal working example:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{changepage}% http://ctan.org/pkg/changepage
\usepackage{lipsum}% http://ctan.org/pkg/lipsum
\begin{document}
\section{Some section title inserted here with some custom gibberish}
\begin{adjustwidth}{2.5em}{0pt}
\lipsum[1]
\end{adjustwidth}
\lipsum[2-5]
\end{document}

Adjustwidth of first paragraph

The standard article document class indents the section title by 2.5em.

Edit: After seeing your minimal working example (MWE), I would suggest using the enumitem package to provide the appropriate margin alignment in your "problem" set. Below is a revised version of your MWE with the correct redefinition.

\documentclass[10pt,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage[hmargin=3cm,vmargin=3.5cm]{geometry}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[norsk]{babel}
\usepackage{amsmath}

\usepackage{enumitem}
\usepackage[hidelinks]{hyperref}
\usepackage[dvipsnames*,svgnames]{xcolor}

\newcommand{\oppgave}[2]{\section*{Oppgave #1 {\normalfont\normalsize (#2 poeng)}
\addcontentsline{toc}{section}{Oppgave #1}}}

\newcommand{\del}[1]{%
  \item \addcontentsline{toc}{subsection}{#1)}
}

\newlist{deloppg}{enumerate}{2}
\setlist[deloppg]{label=\arabic*),leftmargin=*,itemsep=5pt}

\begin{document}

\tableofcontents

\newpage

\section*{Fasitsvar til regneoppgaver}
\addcontentsline{toc}{section}{Fasitsvar til regneoppgaver}

\newpage

\noindent
\phantomsection
\addcontentsline{toc}{section}{{\color{red}\Large{Del 1}}}
\fcolorbox{black}{LightSteelBlue}{%
  \parbox[t][1.25cm][c]{\textwidth}{%
    \begin{center}
      \textbf{Del 1 \\Uten hjelpemiddler}
    \end{center}%
  }%
}

\oppgave{1}{18}

\begin{enumerate}[leftmargin=*,labelsep=2em,label=\alph*)]
\del{a} \label{1a}
  Vis at den deriverte til funksjonen $O(x) = \dfrac{500}{x} + 8x^2 $ er
  %
  \begin{align*}
    O'(x) = \frac{ -500 + 16x^3 }{x^2}
  \end{align*}
  %
\del{b} Deriver funksjonene \\ 
\begin{deloppg}
  \item  $ f(x) = 3  \ln(2x)       $ 
  \item  $ g(x) = 3x \cdot e^{x^2} $ \aa 
\end{deloppg}
%
\vspace{5mm}
%
\del{c} Vi har gitt polynomfunksjonen $f(x)=x^3 - 3x^2 - 13x + 15$
\begin{deloppg}
  \item Vis at $f(1)=0$. Bruk polynomdivisjon til å faktorisere $f(x)$  i førstegradsfaktorer
  \item Løs ulikheten $f(x)\leq 0$
\end{deloppg} 
%
\vspace{5mm}
%
\del{d}
  Mengden av lava som spruter ut per time ved et vulkanutbrudd kan 
  tilnærmet beskrives ved et funksjonsuttrykk $f(x)$. Funksjonsverdiene 
  er målt i tonn, og $t$ er antall timer etter begynnelsen av utbruddet. \\ \\ Du får vite at: $f(0)=300, \qquad f'(10)=0 \qquad \textnormal{og} \qquad         f''(10) = -10$\\ \\ Hva kan du si om vulkanutbruddet på grunnlag av disse opplysningene? 
\end{enumerate}
\end{document}

Enumitem defintion for problems

Looking at your code there could be some improvements made. However, since the MWE might only cover a portion of what you're after, I merely tried to make things work the way you want them to.

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You could try to

\setlength{\parindent}{0.5cm}

but you probably would like to put this command after the \opening{} so as not to indent this as well.

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