How to add empty spaces into MD markdown readme on GitHub

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I m struggling to add empty spaces before the string starts to make my GitHub README md looks something like this     Right now it looks like this     I tried adding  lt br   gt  tag to fix the new string start  now it works  but I don t understand how to add spaces before the string starts without changing everything to  amp nbsp   Maybe there s a more elegant way to format it

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I m surprised no one mentioned the HTML entities  amp ensp  and  amp emsp  which produce horizontal white space equivalent to the characters n and m  respectively  If you want to accumulate horizontal white space quickly  those are more efficient than  amp nbsp    no space    amp nbsp    amp ensp    amp emsp   Along with  lt space gt  and  amp thinsp   these are the five entities HTML provides for horizontal white space  Note that except for  amp nbsp   all entities allow breaking  Whatever text surrounds them will wrap to a new line if it would otherwise extend beyond the container boundary  With  amp nbsp  it would wrap to a new line as a block even if the text before  amp nbsp  could fit on the previous line  Depending on your use case  that may be desired or undesired  For me  unless I m dealing with things like names  John amp nbsp Doe   addresses or references  see eq  amp nbsp 5   breaking as a block is usually undesired

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Instead of using HTML entities like  amp nbsp  and  amp emsp   as others have suggested   you can use the Unicode em space  8195 in UTF-8  directly   Try copy-pasting the following into your README md   The spaces at the start of the lines are em spaces   The action of every agent  lt br   gt    into the world  lt br   gt  starts  lt br   gt    from their physical selves   lt br   gt

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Markdown gets converted into HTML XHMTL      John Gruber created the Markdown language in 2004 in collaboration with Aaron Swartz on the syntax  with the goal of enabling people to write using an easy-to-read  easy-to-write plain text format  and optionally convert it to structurally valid HTML  or XHTML     HTML is completely based on using  amp nbsp  for adding extra spaces if it doesn t externally define use JavaScript or CSS for elements       Markdown is a lightweight markup language with plain text formatting syntax  It is designed so that it can be converted to HTML and many other formats using a tool by the same name      If you want to use  raquo    only one space  raquo  either use  amp nbsp  or just hit Spacebar  2nd one is good choice in this case  more than one space  raquo  use  amp nbsp  space  for 2 consecutive spaces      eg  If you want to add 10 spaces contiguously then you should use   amp nbsp      nbsp   amp nbsp      nbsp   amp nbsp      nbsp   amp nbsp      nbsp   amp nbsp      nbsp       amp nbsp space amp nbsp space amp nbsp space amp nbsp space amp nbsp space   instead of using 10  amp nbsp  one after one as the below one      amp nbsp  amp nbsp  amp nbsp  amp nbsp  amp nbsp  amp nbsp  amp nbsp  amp nbsp  amp nbsp  amp nbsp      For more details check    Adding multiple spaces between text in Markdown   How to create extra space in HTML or web page

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After different tries  I end up to a solution since most markdown interpreter support Math environment   The following adds one white space          And here ten

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As a workaround  you can use a code block to render the code literally  Just surround your text with triple backticks      It will look like this   2018-07-20 Wrote this answer            Can format it without  amp nbsp      Also don t need  lt br   gt  for new line   Note that using  lt pre gt  and  lt code gt  you get slightly different behaviour   amp nbsp and  lt br   gt  will be parsed rather than inserted literally    lt pre gt     2018-07-20 Wrote this answer            Can format it without  nbsp      Also don t need  for new line    lt code gt    2018-07-20 Wrote this answer            Can format it without  nbsp      Also don t need  for new line

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Markdown really changes everything to html and html collapses spaces so you really can t do anything about it  You have to use the  amp nbsp  for it  A funny example here that I m writing in markdown and I ll use couple of  nbsp   nbsp   nbsp   nbsp   here   Above there are some  amp nbsp  without backticks

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You can use  lt pre gt  to display all spaces  amp  blanks you have typed  E g     lt pre gt  hello  this is    just an     example       lt  pre gt

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