How to indent a few lines in Markdown markup?

问题:

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?

回答1:

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:

http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax#html

回答2:

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.

回答3:

This is an old thread, but I would have thought markdown's blockquotes ('> ') would be best for this:

回答4:

do tab, then the + sign, then space, then your content

So

* level one + level two tabbed

回答5:

See if this ">" helps:

Line 1
> line 2 
>> line 3

回答6:

If you really must use tabs, and you don't mind the grey background-color and padding, <pre> tags might work (if supported):

<pre>
This        That        And             This
That        This        And             That    
</pre>

This        That        And             This
That        This        And             That    

回答7:

Check if you can use HTML with your markdown. Maybe this works out for you:

• List entry one<br/>
  Indented line<br/>
<br/>
  And some more..
• Second entry
  • Subentry<br/>
    Hello there!

回答8:

What about place a determined space in the start of paragraph using the math environment as like:

$\qquad$ My line of text ...

This works for me and hope work for you too.

回答9:

To answer MengLu and @lifebalance's questions in response to SColvin's answer (which I much prefer to the accepted answer for the control it provides), it seems as though you could just target a parent element of the lists when setting the display to none, adding a surrounding element if necessary. So if we suppose we're doing this for a table of contents, we can extend SColvin's answer:

HTML

<nav class="table-of-contents">
  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>
</nav>

CSS

.table-of-contents ul {
  list-style-type: none;
}

回答10:

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.

Insert a hard space

| OS        | Input method                      |
|===========| ==================================|
| macOS     | OPTION+SPACE (ALT+SPACE)          |
| Linux     | Compose Space Space or AltGr+Space|
| Windows   | Alt+0+1+6+0                       |

Some text editor use Ctrl+Shift+Space.

Issue

Some text editors can convert hard spaces to common spaces in copying and pasting operations, so be careful.

回答11:

Some Markdown implementations seem to use the ~ character for indentation.

回答12:

Another alternative is to use a markdown editor like StackEdit. It converts html (or text) into markdown in a WYSIWYG editor. You can create indents, titles, lists in the editor, and it will show you the corresponding text in markdown format. You can then save, publish, share, or download the file. You can access it on their website - no downloads required!

回答13:

Use a no-break space directly   (not the same as !).

(You could insert HTML or some esoteric markdown code, but I can think of better reasons to break compatibility with standard markdown.)

回答14:

Okay, with a little HTML in your R code, I did the following code to generate pure text in R Markdown. The <h3 style="text-indent: 15em;"> indents the text 15 spaces. For the original question, change the 15 to 6.

## Option: Du Pont Ratio Concept - (ROE Decomposition)
### (Closed Quotes/Total Premium) = (Closed Quotes/Quotes Issued) X <br>
<h3 style="text-indent: 15em;">
 (Quotes Issued/Renewal Premium) X <br></h3>
<h3 style="text-indent: 15em;">
 (Renewal Premium/Total Premium)</h3>

So the resulting code gives my desired output format. I am using tabs for the Markdown document and was looking to line up the () text which worked.