Cfrgtkky

I'm using Pandoc / Markdown / LaTeX to write lab reports.

I've opted to not deal with multiple intermediate files for my bibliography. So I have to use this to generate my documents:

pandoc --csl=apa.csl lab02.md --bibliography=bibtex.bib -o lab02.pdf

This works alright. The issue is that hanging indent does not work. It's easy to solve this through this code block:

begingroup

# References

setlength{parindent}{-0.2in}

setlength{leftskip}{0.2in}

setlength{parskip}{8pt}



<div id="refs"></div>

endgroup

Which is how I am citing references. I have to do this because I have a required section after references, otherwise I could simply do # References and have it automatically put everything in, and just do that setlength stuff once right at the end of the doc.

My question is concerning how to create a custom command to do this faster, because I like hanging indent in some other sections too. I want do do this both for ease of use and to learn how to make commands. I am having trouble doing this on my own.

Ideally it'd be something like: starthang which maps to

begingroup

# References

setlength{parindent}{-0.2in}

setlength{leftskip}{0.2in}

setlength{parskip}{8pt}

And

endhang which just is an alias for endgroup

The best I have come up with is this, which doesn't seem to work:

newenvironment{hang}

{   {begingroup

    setlength{parindent}{-0.2in}

    setlength{leftskip}{0.2in}

    setlength{parskip}{8pt}

    }

    {

      endgroup  

    }

}

Any ideas greatly appreciated.

One easy solution is to use the hangparas environment from the hanging package:

---

header-includes: |

  usepackage{hanging}

references:

- id: 'abou-el-haj:1983bury'

  type: article-journal

  title: >-

    Bury St Edmunds Abbey Between 1070 and 1124: A History of Property,

    Privilege, and Monastic Art Production

  container-title: Art History

  page: 1-29

  volume: '6'

  issue: '1'

  DOI: 10/gftmwk

  author:

    - family: Abou-El-Haj

      given: Barbara

  issued:

    - year: 1983

      month: 3

- id: 'abou-el-haj:1991audiences'

  type: article-journal

  title: The audiences for the medieval cult of saints

  container-title: Gesta

  page: 3-15

  volume: '30'

  issue: '1'

  DOI: 10/bhjtnp

  author:

    - family: Abou-El-Haj

      given: Barbara

  issued:

    - year: 1991

---



[@abou-el-haj:1983bury; @abou-el-haj:1991audiences]



# References



```{=latex}

begin{hangparas}{1em}{1}

```



<div id="refs"></div>



```{=latex}

end{hangparas}

```