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[Henri Lesourd <address@hidden>]

Andrew Cooper wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I'm using TeXmacs to write an article with a bibliography, using the 
> automatic generation of content from a BibTeX file. Everything has 
> been going well so far, but now I'm stuck on a formatting issue.
>
> In the bibliography, for each entry in the list where the reference 
> span multiple lines, I want to indent all subsequent lines relative to 
> the first, i.e.:
>
> Author. A, Author B., and Author C., year, Title of the paper which |
> >>>>> is so long it wraps onto the next line, journal, volume, |
> >>>>> pages 1-100.
>
> where | represents the end of a line and >>>>> represents an 
> indentation. I've tried the usual trial and error to do this, but I'm 
> still no further forward. Can anyone help?
>
> As I'm fairly new to TeXmacs, I'm at the level of playing about with 
> various macros relevant to the bibliography, as described in the 
> manual, and I've managed to make a few simple alterations to get other 
> aspects of the style I want. I can see this problem is akin to what 
> margin-first-other does

That's it (fortunately you found that, because I didn't noticed this one in
the documentation ;-).

On my machine (TeXmacs 1.0.6, Linux SuSE), the following markup :
[[
<margin-first-other|0mm|5mm|this is a ... very long ... sentence>
]]

does :
[[
  this is a .... ... ... ... ...
     very long ... ...   ... ...
     sentence.... ... ... .. ...
]]

If you can obtain the same result, then the following hack :
[[
  <assign|bibitem*|<macro|x|<margin-first-other|0mm|5mm|{old code for 
bibitem*}>>
]]

should solve your problem (and then you put this macro inside a 
stylesheet of yours,
which you use in your document).

It is also possible that under Windows, <margin-first-other|...> doesn't 
work
as expected. This is unlikely but possible ; in this latter case, we 
will need
to find something else...

Best, Henri

P.S. : You can have a look at http://www.ags.uni-sb.de/~henri/texmacs/ for
 some simple tutorials, especially the one about how writing stylesheets,
 TeXmacs plugins and the like.