# How to control indentation of a cell relative to it's parent?

Is there a stylesheet property that can be set to control the extra level of indentation of a cell in its group (I don't want to specify absolute CellMargins)?

Carl suggests in the comments to use this in the stylesheet:

Cell[StyleData["Item"], CellMargins -> {{Inherited + 20, 10}, {10, 5}}]


which yields:

But this looks bad, I'd like them to be indented left-horizontally flush to their cell group's parent cell, plus a fixed about. Would look approximately like this (I used the ruler toolbar):

• Something like: CellMargins -> {{Inherited + 10, 10}, {10, 5}}? – Carl Woll Mar 1 '17 at 23:15
• @CarlWoll That's only for style inheritance - not cell groups in general, or am I wrong about that? – user5601 Mar 1 '17 at 23:35
• @Mr.Wizard thanks, do my edits clear it up? – user5601 Mar 2 '17 at 0:56
• I'm probably just being a dunce (again) but I'm still not certain I understand. Perhaps you could manually edit the CellMargins for your example to show what your desired format would look like? – Mr.Wizard Mar 2 '17 at 1:11
• Could it be that stylesheets aren't expressive enough to deal with such a constraint? I wish that the documentation for Inherited was clearer about use cases involving cell groups and in stylesheets. – user5601 Mar 2 '17 at 1:29