it also works in this forum text looks like a good solution too. This way I get a simple way to indent, it looks clean in either mode and it gets out of my way when I’ve got gold running from my fingertips into the keyboard.
Indenting paragraphs code#
I’m doing a bulk of this kind of writing on an iPad and I don’t want to add too many apps or alt keyboards or extra code that might distract me. There’s a whole host of empty character types listed on that page that might work if you can wrangle Unicode. It’s not visible in edit or rendered view in a markdown document and it indents just fine. One of the pages I read sent me here and I was able to make an iOS text replacement of 6 characters of which is some kind of Unicode empty space character. I find it makes large blocks of text more readable and navigate-able. That is, indenting the first line only of a paragraph. I’ve also learned that the thing I was aiming for is an archaic form of layout, at least by web standards. Though it’s not clear what you mean by indenting: indent the whole paragraph or just the first line of each paragraph. I can t find a reference to Tab in the markdown cheat sheets that I was referencing. A “Tab” at the beginning changes the size and font of the paragraph but I don’t know why. At least in DTTG, two hard returns defines a paragraph, but adding spaces at the beginning of the line doesn’t show up in the rendered view.
Indenting paragraphs how to#
I find that indenting paragraphs makes large blocks of text easier to read and I can’t figure out how to indent in markdown on DTTG.
I do have one question that seems so simple but I can not solve. I have looked at the Markdown cheat sheets and I need very little of the fancy stuff, maybe a heading or two and the TOC could probably come in handy. I do most of my writing on an iPad then sort it all out, edit and organize on a MacBookPro (and sometimes an iPhone) I don’t have to track citations or footnotes (yet!) and I am at the stage where I just want to dump in all the words, quickly into a document and sort it out later. Wider text blocks should have bigger indents.Tl:dr How does one indent paragraphs in DTTG markdown?įor a number of reasons I have researched the various writing and outlining apps that work with DEVONThink and I have decided to do all my writing for the next stage completely in DT in markdown. For instance, narrow text blocks (3″ or less) should have first-line indents toward the low end of this range. (Recall that there are 72 points to an inch, so this works out to 0.17–0.67″.)īut use your judgment-consider the width of the text block when setting the first-line indent. So a paragraph set in 12 point should have a first-line indent of 12–48 points.
It should be no bigger than four times the point size, or else the first line will seem disconnected from the left edge. Typically, a first-line indent should be no smaller than the current point size, or else it’ll be hard to notice. It’s meant to be used with bulleted lists to allow the bullet to cantilever off the left edge. Don’t use them.Ī negative first-line indent is called a hanging indent. Drop caps look pretentious and dorky in legal documents.
And vice versa.Ī first-line indent on the first paragraph of any text is optional, because it’s obvious where the paragraph starts.Ī drop cap is what you get when you enlarge the first letter so it descends three or four lines into the paragraph. If you use a first-line indent on a paragraph, don’t use space between. The other common way is with space between paragraphs.įirst-line indents and space between paragraphs have the same relationship as belts and suspenders. First-line indents Between one and four times the point sizeĪ first-line indent is the most common way to signal the start of a new paragraph.
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