Align the text in a simple way

Question

I wonder if you have a more practical way of doing the following:

Indent the text in 4cm
Maintaining justified alignment
The text should occupy all available space except the edges and 4cm

Something like the image below (the right alignment is bad)

It is possible to do this also using two minipage, but it is still not very practical

So you want specific paragraphs to be centre justified with 4cm indent not your whole document, right? — gnikit, Apr 10 '17 at 17:37
See if http://tex.stackexchange.com/q/35933/586 or http://tex.stackexchange.com/q/36121/586 help. — Torbjørn T., Apr 10 '17 at 17:39
Yes, the option to create a \newenvironment In one of the answer is perfect. Because I do not know English, I find it difficult to search. Thanks a lot for the help. — Marcelo Rodrigues, Apr 10 '17 at 17:43
Why do you need two minipages? See my answer using only one. — Skillmon, Apr 10 '17 at 17:44
Using two minipages was one way to do it, but I'd like something more practical. Creating an environment from your answer is just what I wanted. — Marcelo Rodrigues, Apr 10 '17 at 17:47

Skillmon · Answer 1 · 2017-04-10T17:50:27.563

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I would use:

\documentclass[]{scrartcl}

\usepackage{lipsum}

\begin{document}
\hfill
\begin{minipage}{\dimexpr\textwidth-4cm}
    \lipsum[1]
    \xdef\tpd{\the\prevdepth}
\end{minipage}

\prevdepth\tpd\lipsum[2]
\end{document}

Why do you need that?

edited Apr 10 '17 at 17:50

answered Apr 10 '17 at 17:37

Skillmon

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Brazilian standards require that long quotations be made in this way. – Marcelo Rodrigues Apr 10 '17 at 17:48
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@MarceloRodrigues You should watch out for the incorrect spacing between the minipage-paragraph and the next one. I added \xdef\tpd{\the\prevdepth} and \prevdepth\tpd for that (taken from one of the answers to the duplicate posts). – Skillmon Apr 10 '17 at 17:52

Align the text in a simple way

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