Re: Formatting

[Tassilo Horn]

Dieter Britz <dieterhansbritz@gmail.com> writes:

Hi Dieter,

> I often have a list of items, and like it to look like this:
>
>   \item bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla 
>         bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla
>         bla bla bla bla
>
> etc. I write it like that, and as I type in more lines, they get
> nicely margined in the same way.
>
> However, if I now change the text, and then reformat using ESC-q,
> it changes to
>
>   \item bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla 
>     bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla  
>     bla bla bla bla
>
> Can I force it to keep my chosen margins?

I assume you use AUCTeX for LaTeX editing, right?  If so, you could set

  (setq LaTeX-indent-level 6)
  (setq LaTeX-item-indent -6)

and it should fill \item paragraphs as you like.  However, now every
environment's content will be indented with 6 instead of 2 spaces, too.

Bye,
Tassilo