A to Z Challenge - I for Indent

Theme - Journalism jargons

There are different ways in which paragraphs of an article are demarcated.

One way is to leave a line between two paras. The other, which is more common, is to begin the first sentence a little away from the left margin. That little space, between the margin and the beginning of the first line of a sentence, is called the indent.

The following, a front page article of yesterday's New York Times, illustrates Indent and Gutter, about which I wrote a couple of days ago.

HANGING INDENT

Here, the first line of the paragraph begins from the left margin, but all the other lines start a little away from the left margin. Basically, here the indent is not for the first line, as normally is the case, instead it is for all the subsequent lines.

This is a design format that used to be very popular in Indian newspapers many years ago. One item on a page used to be set in the 'hanging indent' format. For some reasons, now no big newspaper in India, at least to my knowledge, uses this format.

Most word document applications have an option to adjust the indent setting.

(This post is a part of the "Blogging from A to Z Challenge April 2019".)