Multiple indent levels in the same text box

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#1

Hi guys,
I’m writing up a bibliography in Libre Draw, and it needs to be APA7. APA7 requires that when a single entry in a bibliography covers multiple lines, lines after the first must have an indent of 5 spaces. When I go into the style settings, I can find options for adding indentations to the first line of a paragraph, but not vice versa - is there a way to do this?
I have tried adding a negative indent to the first line option, but it just corrects it to 0.

Any advice much appreciated

#2

Draw is not a document processor; it is intended to create diagrams. Don’t expect too much from its rudimentary labelling feature

If you need sophisticated forlatting and layout, work with Writer. Paragraph styles in Writer offer hanging indent: just make first line indent negative (as you tried in vain in Draw).

And it is possible you find templates in the LO extension library already configured for APA7.

#3

Thanks for the reply
I’m somewhat new to libre office and had assumed Draw was its equivalent to publisher

#4

Not at all. There is no equivalent to Publisher in LO. Publisher is desktop-oriented (i.e. you create and manage a collection of pages). Writer is a competitor to Word, i.e. flow-oriented (you manage a text and the program takes care for its division into pages).

#5

Thanks for clearing that up.

Do you have any recommendations for free to use alternatives to publisher?
Thanks

#6

If your goal is to compose page-oriented documents, look at Scribus.

But if you want to build a bibliography, use Writer. It has very versatile formatting possibilities without the hassle to lay out page structure (though you can simulate it but as a beginner, I wouldn’t recommend to start with that kind of document). Writer also has a bibliography feature (it is an internal database), but I am not sure you can easily format the result as APA7. Rendering the bibliography entries offers many many configurations but I am not familiar enough with APA7 to evaluate the ease or difficulty of the task.

#7

I need to write a page oriented document with a bibliography, so I’ll check out Scribus
Thanks again for the suggestions

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