How to Indent a Few Lines in Markdown Markup?
I Want to Write a Few Lines of Text. They Should Be Formatted Normally Except Each Line Should Start at the 6Th Column. I. E. I Don't Want the Code Block...
I want to write a few lines of text. They should be formatted normally except each line should start at the 6th column. I.e. I don't want the code block formatting rule to make this chunk of text look like code as I'll use other formatting like bold face, etc. How to do that in Markdown?
23 Answers
There's no way to do that in markdown's native features. However markdown allows inline HTML, so writing
This will appear with six space characters in front of it
will produce:
This will appear with six space characters in front of it
If you have control over CSS on the page, you could also use a tag and style it, either inline or with CSS rules.
Either way, markdown is not meant as a tool for layout, it is meant to simplify the process of writing for the web, so if you find yourself stretching its feature set to do what you need, you might look at whether or not you're using the right tool here. Check out Gruber's docs:
One way to do it is to use bullet points, which allows you specify multiple levels of indentation. Bullet points are inserted using multiples of two spaces, star, another space Eg.:
this is a normal line of text
* this is the first level of bullet points, made up of <space><space>*<space>
* this is more indented, composed of <space><space><space><space>*<space>
This method has the great advantage that it also makes sense when you view the raw text.
If you care about not seeing the bullet points themselves, you should (depending on where you're using markdown) to be able to add li {list-style-type: none;} to the css for the whole mark down area.
See if this ">" helps:
Line 1
> line 2
>> line 3
This is an old thread, but I would have thought markdown's blockquotes ('> ') would be best for this:
Please use hard (non-breaking) spaces
Why use another markup language? (I Agree with @c z above).
One goal of Markdown is to make the documents readable even in a plain text editor.
Same result two approaches
The code
Sample code
5th position in an really ugly code
5th position in a clear an readable code
Again using non-breaking spaces :)
The result
Sample code
5th position in an really ugly code
5th position in a clear an readable code
Again using non-breaking spaces :)
The visual representation of a non-breaking space (or hard space) is usually a normal space " ", however, its Unicode representation is U+00A0.
The Unicode representation of the ordinary space is U+0020 (32 in the ASCII Table).
Thus, text processors may behave differently while the visual representation remains the same.
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