Hanging indent for text

Question

Starting code is as follows. I'd like a hanging indent for first text column:

MWE:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage{blindtext}
\usepackage{paracol}
\usepackage{parskip}
\setlength{\parindent}{15pt}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage{blindtext}
\usepackage{paracol}
\usepackage{parskip}
\setlength{\parindent}{15pt}
\usepackage{CJKutf8}

\begin{document}

\section*{Random Text}
\begin{paracol}{2}
%\hangindent 
Person 1: "\blindtext"
%\hangafter
\switchcolumn \noindent
Person 2: "\blindtext"
\end{paracol}

\end{document}

Random text on subsequent lines needs to be justified to the opening quote of first line. This should continue until I indicate it to end even with new lines.

Welcome! Please correct your code. It for sure won't compile like that! — cfr, Mar 14 '17 at 23:53
I removed the offending duplicate article document class declaration. — Quesop, Mar 15 '17 at 15:52

score 5 · Answer 1 · edited Mar 15 '17 at 08:34

5

Perhaps you may use the labeling-environment of the KOMA-Script bundle.

 \documentclass[parskip=true]{scrartcl}

 \usepackage{blindtext}
 \usepackage{paracol}

 \addtokomafont{labelinglabel}{\bfseries}

 \begin{document}

 \section*{Random Text}
 \begin{paracol}{2}
 \begin{labeling}{Person 1}
 \item[Person 1] \blindtext
 \end{labeling}
 \switchcolumn
 \begin{labeling}{Person 2}
 \item[Person 2] \blindtext
 \end{labeling}
 \end{paracol}

 \end{document}

edited Mar 15 '17 at 08:34

Henk Metselaar

380

answered Mar 15 '17 at 06:47

Jürgen

2,160

Very good. Never heard of the labeling environment before. – Dr. Manuel Kuehner Mar 15 '17 at 09:05
@ Jürgen Only issue is that the headers e.g. document titles, section headers are now enlarged. How to reduce font size to that of MWE? – Quesop Mar 15 '17 at 16:12
@Quesop See my solution below. It does not use the KOMA class which has a different standard layout. – Dr. Manuel Kuehner Mar 15 '17 at 21:49
@ Quesop You may add the class option headings=normal or even headings=small [default: headings=big]. – Jürgen Mar 16 '17 at 09:58

Dr. Manuel Kuehner · Answer 2 · 2017-03-15T09:59:51.563

Would this work for you? I just use the description list.

Version 1

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{blindtext}
\usepackage{paracol}
\usepackage{parskip}

\begin{document}

\section*{Random Text}
\begin{paracol}{2}
\begin{description}
\item[Person 1] \blindtext
\end{description}
\switchcolumn
\begin{description}
\item[Person 2] \blindtext
\end{description}
\end{paracol}

\end{document}

Version 2

Here I added the enumitem and the calc package.

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{blindtext}
\usepackage{paracol}
\usepackage{parskip}


%% Important here
% http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/9760
% http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/7008
% http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/217722
% http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/33817 <-- very relevant
\usepackage{calc}
\usepackage{enumitem}
\setlist[description]{
    leftmargin=18mm,
    itemindent=0mm,
    labelwidth=\leftmargin-\labelsep
    }

\begin{document}

\section*{Random Text}
\begin{paracol}{2}
\begin{description}
\item[Person 1] \blindtext
\end{description}
\switchcolumn
\begin{description}
\item[Person 2] \blindtext
\end{description}
\end{paracol}

\end{document}

Version 3 -- Best solution in my Opinion

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{blindtext}
\usepackage{paracol}
\usepackage{parskip}
\usepackage{calc}

%% Important here
% http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/9760
% http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/7008
% http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/217722
% http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/33817 <-- very relevant
\usepackage{enumitem}
\setlist[description]{
    leftmargin=\widthof{\normalsize\textbf{Person 99}},
    style=nextline
    }

\begin{document}

\section*{Random Text}
\begin{paracol}{2}
\begin{description}
\item[Person 1] \blindtext
\end{description}
\switchcolumn
\begin{description}
\item[Person 2] \blindtext
\end{description}
\end{paracol}

\end{document}

I would like the "consectetuer" to align with "Lorem" and so forth for subsequent lines after the first line. — Quesop, Mar 15 '17 at 03:36

Hanging indent for text

2 Answers2

Version 1

Version 2

Version 3 -- Best solution in my Opinion

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