How to indent a few lines in Markdown markup

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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

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If you re working with bullet points  try this    lt ul gt     lt li gt Coffee lt  li gt     lt li gt Tea      lt ul gt         lt li gt Black tea lt  li gt         lt li gt Green tea lt  li gt       lt  ul gt     lt  li gt     lt li gt Milk lt  li gt   lt  ul gt    This is the method I use when styling markdown

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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

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Some Markdown implementations seem to use the   character for indentation

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Check if you can use HTML with your markdown  Maybe this works out for you    List entry one lt br  gt  Indented line lt br  gt   lt br  gt  And some more   Second entry   Subentry lt br  gt  Hello there

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I would use  amp emsp  is a lot cleaner in my opinion

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Suprisingly nobody came up with the idea of just using a div with paddingyet  so here you go   lt div style  quot padding-left  30px  quot  gt  My text  lt  div gt

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For quoted indented paragraphs this hack might work  depending on render engine             - - -         Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet  consectetur adipiscing elit  sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua  Ut enim ad minim veniam  quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat  Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur  Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident  sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum            which renders as

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There s no way to do that in markdown s native features   However markdown allows inline HTML  so writing  amp nbsp  amp nbsp  amp nbsp  amp nbsp  amp nbsp  amp nbsp 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

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If you really must use tabs  and you don t mind the grey background-color and padding   lt pre gt  tags might work  if supported     lt pre gt  This        That        And             This That        This        And             That      lt  pre gt     This        That        And             This That        This        And             That

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For completeness  the deeper bulleted lists      Nested deeper levels     ---- leave here an empty row     first level A item - no space in front the bullet character      second level Aa item - 1 space is enough          third level Aaa item - 5 spaces min         second level Ab item - 4 spaces possible too     first level B item   Nested deeper levels    first level A item - no space in front the bullet character   second level Aa item - 1 space is enough   third level Aaa item - 5 spaces min  second level Ab item - 4 spaces possible too  first level B item  Nested deeper levels      Skip a line and indent eight spaces   as said in the editor-help  just on this page    first level A item - no space in front the bullet character    second level Aa item - 1 space is enough        third level Aaa item - 5 spaces min       second level Ab item - 4 spaces possible too   first level B item          And there         could be even more         such octets of spaces

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Okay  with a little HTML in your R code  I did the following code to generate pure text in R Markdown   The  lt h3 style  text-indent  15em   gt  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  lt br gt   lt h3 style  text-indent  15em   gt    Quotes Issued Renewal Premium  X  lt br gt  lt  h3 gt   lt h3 style  text-indent  15em   gt    Renewal Premium Total Premium  lt  h3 gt    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

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As pointed out by  AlexDupuy in the comments  definition lists can be used for this   This is not supported by all markdown processors  but is widely available  Markdown Guide - Definition Lists  Term 1   definition 1   definition 2  Term 2   definition 1   definition 2   Renders as  html     lt dl gt       lt dt gt Term 1 lt  dt gt       lt dd gt definition 1 lt  dd gt       lt dd gt definition 2 lt  dd gt       lt dt gt Term 2 lt  dt gt       lt dd gt definition 1 lt  dd gt       lt dd gt definition 2 lt  dd gt   lt  dl gt    Typically the DT is rendered in a heading-like format  and each DD is rendered as indented text beneath this   If you don t want a heading term  just use a non-breaking space in place of the definition term    amp nbsp    This is the text that I want indented   All text on the same line as the preceding colon will be included in this definition    If you include a second definition you ll get a new line  potentially separated by a space   lt br   gt Some inline HTML may be supported within this too  allowing you to create new lines without spaces    Support for other markdown syntax varies  e g  we can add a bullet list  but each one s wrapped in a separate definition term  so the spacing may be out    - item 1   - item 2   - item 3   You can see this in action by copy-pasting the above examples to this site  Stack Edit Markdown Editor

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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  lt space gt  lt space gt   lt space gt        this is more indented  composed of  lt space gt  lt space gt  lt space gt  lt space gt   lt space gt    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

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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  amp nbsp  amp nbsp  amp nbsp  amp nbsp 5th position in an really ugly code           5th position in a clear an readable code           Again using non-breaking spaces      The result  Sample code  nbsp  nbsp  nbsp  nbsp 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

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This is an old thread  but I would have thought markdown s blockquotes        would be best for this

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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   lt nav class  table-of-contents  gt    this is a normal line of text     this is the first level of bullet points  made up of  lt space gt  lt space gt   lt space gt        this is more indented  composed of  lt space gt  lt space gt  lt space gt  lt space gt   lt space gt   lt  nav gt    CSS   table-of-contents ul     list-style-type  none

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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

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One of the problems with starting your line with non-breaking spaces is that if your line is long enough to wrap  then when it spills onto a second line the first character of the overflow line with start hard left instead of starting under the first character of the line above it   If your system allows you to mix HTML in with your markdown  a cheep and cheerful way of getting an indent is like this    lt ul gt  My indented text goes here  and it can be long and wrap if you like  And you can have multiple lines if you want   lt  ul gt    Semantically within your HTML it is nonsense  a UL section without any LI items   but all browsers I have used just happily indent what s between those tags

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On gitlab com a single en space  U 2002  followed by a single em space  U 2003  works decently   Presumably other repetitions or combinations of not-exactly-accounted-for space characters would also suffice

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See if this     helps   Line 1  gt  line 2   gt  gt  line 3

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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

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do tab  then the   sign  then space  then your content  So      level one     level two tabbed

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