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• • May 20, 2011 at 1:27 pm #59670
    Tim Hughes

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    Prompted by the hanging indent post earlier this week I was considering how much I dislike the “dagger” “indent to here” doodad, it is counter to good workflow as it has to be inserted where as a properly set up hanging indent can be a paragraph style and as such applied at speed (as well as changed equally fast).

    But are there any good uses of the “backslash key stroke” dagger? I know sometimes you just do end up using it, but are there any really good uses of it? Can it be a force for good?

  • May 20, 2011 at 1:57 pm #59672
    Theunis De Jong

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    With 8 distinctly separate styles with each a different hanging indent (count 'em: chapter titles and preambulatory stuff, headings — 3 levels of these –, numbered lists, quotes, regular examples, double indented examples, references), I have no stomach to create yet another style for the odd author using a three-level numbered list. So I use the plain numbered list style, insert one or more extra tabs and merrily stab thine dagger right in there.

    It's kind of like using the Forced Line Break (Shift+Enter). I'm urging everyone not ever to use this evil thing but nevertheless content with using it myself everywhere I see fit. (When being Caught in the Act by interns, I always say “Yeah well I'm allowed to use 'em and you are not”.)

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