I would like to define a new environment, which I can use to change the appearance of my text locally.
Specifically, I would like to have certain sections look like this, with indentation, smaller and title in bold.
indent_everything_that_follows{ {\footnotesize \textbf{Example: } a few paragraphs here } } Thank you!
Starting from here, I defined an environment myindent that takes a title is mandatory argument and prints the text indented by 1cm, in \scriptsize and with the title in boldface.
\documentclass{article} \usepackage{lipsum} \newenvironment{myindent}[1]{\list{}{\leftmargin=1cm}\item\footnotesize\textbf{#1}}{\endlist} \begin{document} \lipsum[1] \begin{myindent}{Example:} \lipsum[2-3] \end{myindent} \lipsum[3] \end{document} 
Here is one approach, assuming you always want the title to be Example:
\documentclass{article} \usepackage{lipsum} \newenvironment{myindent}{% \setlength{\leftskip}{3em} \footnotesize \noindent\textbf{Example:}\par\smallskip } {} \begin{document} \lipsum[1] \begin{myindent} \lipsum[2-3] \end{myindent} \lipsum[4] \end{document} 
