Ben jumping in here:

It is a bit vague to me, not seeing the whole document in context,  
but I was my impression that Nobumi wanted all three (or more) lines  
to be a single "paragraph" so they could be sorted and stay together  
as one unit.  What is vague still, is without more real data, it is  
not apparent why the second line could not also have a forced line  
break like the first line... unless you don't actually want a new  
line where they are shown in the example text.  Could a right-align  
tab be used to cause the number item of the second line to be farther  
left than the rest of the body of the paragraph?

Or do I misinterpret, Nobumi?  I take the "soft return" you describe  
to be the character that forces a new line without a new paragraph,  
which is entered as a shift-return.

I have a different idea lurking in my mind for the term "soft  
return":  Years ago, in the days of Word Perfect, the user could  
access the hidden codes, and as I recall from the position of a mere  
bystander to Word Perfect users, a "soft return" was the code  
inserted automatically to make the lines wrap as we now take for  
granted.  Sometimes it got bungled and the user would have to  
manually delete errant "soft returns".  Someone can surely clarify  
this point though.

Hope this helps rather than muddy the waters. :-)

	Ben, in Montana
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On 2013 Apr 21 Sun, at 9:31 pm, Philip Spaelti wrote:

> Hello Nobumi,
>
> I would use two styles/rulers. One for the author name (using  
> return at the end of the line), and a second for the remaining  
> information with the indented wrap. You could set them up to call  
> each other using "Next Style."
>
> Hope that helps
> Philip
>
>
> On 22. Apr 2013, at 9:00 , Nobumi Iyanaga wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Another problem: I would like to give to my bibliographies a  
>> layout such as the following (I mark the italics with _xxx_):
>>
>> Authors_family_naime, First_name.
>> 	200x.	_Title of the book_. Place of publication:
>> 		Publishing house.
>> Authors_family_naime, First_name.
>> 	190x.	"Title of the article." _Title of
>> 		the journal_ issue_number. Place of publication: Publishing house.
>>
>> Etc.
>>
>> That is: First line with no indent, second line with a indent of  
>> some length, and subsequent lines with another, longer indent.  
>> Another condition is that each entry must be kept in one logical  
>> paragraph (so that a sort can order all the entries in the right  
>> alphabetical order).
>>
>> At the end of the first line, I can use a "soft-return" to break  
>> the line without making a paragraph, but after that, the lines  
>> must break "naturally", at the end of right margin.
>>
>> It seems that such a layout is impossible in the current NWP. --  
>> Or are there any tricks that make it possible?
>>
>> (As this seems impossible, for now, I use the following layout,  
>> which is not entirely satisfying:
>>
>> Authors_family_naime, First_name. 200x.
>> 	_Title of the book_. Place of publication:
>> 	Publishing house.
>> Authors_family_naime, First_name. 190x.
>> 	"Title of the article." _Title of
>> 	the journal_ issue_number. Place of publication: Publishing house.
>>
>> Etc.)
>>
>> Thank you in advance for any thoughts.
>>
>> Best regard,
>>
>> Nobumi Iyanaga
>> Tokyo,
>> Japan
>
> Philip Spaelti
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