LaTeX: indent from second line

Question

I want to indent from the second line.

I want to write in LaTeX something like this:

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur a         


        

Answer 1

You can modify globally or locally the length named parindent (that has a default value depending on your documentclass and packages and options):

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{lipsum}

\setlength\parindent{-3em}

\begin{document}
\lipsum[1]

\setlength\parindent{0pt}

\lipsum[2]
\end{document}