Indented Word Wrap in LaTeX

Question

I'm writing a document in LaTeX, and am encountering a problem when I have a line of text that wraps around. What I need is for the text, when it wraps around, to indent so that it matches the label (much like the \item[Label:] Text function, except I can't use a {description} context. Any ideas?

This happens in the context of

\newcommand{\objectiveresheading}[1]{%
  {\parashade[.9]{sharpcorners{\textbf{\Large{Objective: }\large{#1}}}}}

probably gonna need more information-- are you inside an environment of any type? or is this occurring in the body text? — Mica
It is contained within this defined function: \newcommand{\objectiveresheading}[1]{{\parashade[.9]{sharpcorners}{\textbf{\Large{Objective: }\large{#1}}}}} \objectiveresheading is called within the body text. — Jason B
Ouch. Please don't put that much code in a comment...edit the question instead. The control is right under the tags. — dmckee --- ex-moderator kitten

Will Robertson Will Robertson · Accepted Answer · 2010-01-29T01:50:06

There is an internal LaTeX macro to perform this function called \@hangfrom. Here is an example:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\begin{document}
\makeatletter
\newcommand*\objectiveresheading[1]{%
  \@hangfrom{\Large\bfseries Objective: }%
  {\large\bfseries #1\par}%
} 
\makeatother
\objectiveresheading{\lipsum[1]}
\end{document}

Note that the wrapped text can only be a single paragraph. If you need multiple paragraphs, something more similar to a list environment would be better.

Indented Word Wrap in LaTeX

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