How can I indent a line without indenting the whole paragraph?
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I write and post poetry. How it looks on the page or screen is important. Often I want to indent one line but not the whole paragraph or ‘stanza’. Sometimes I want different lines to be indented by different amounts. But if I use the Indent & Outdent tools in the Visual Editor then the whole paragraph (or stanza) is moved. Is there a way to set the indentation of a single line? If not in Visual then in Text Editor? Please!
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Hello there,
Blog editors and word processors are not the same and do not work the same way. The web standard is one blank line only, so you cannot add more blank lines by pressing return repeatedly like you would do with a typewriter or in a word processing application. If you want to learn how to format and space your posts and pages see: http://en.support.wordpress.com/writing-and-formatting-poetry/If you are working in the Visual editor, to get single spacing between paragraphs hold the SHIFT key down and simultaneously click ENTER at the end of the paragraph.
If you are working in the HTML (Text) editor, a single click of ENTER will give you a single-spaced line, and two clicks of ENTER will result in double spaced lines.
Read more here > http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2011/09/13/wordpress-formatting-and-spacing/
P.S. When you create a new post, always make sure the Format tool is set to Paragraph before you start typing. It’s in the Visual editor Row 2 first position “style”. See the illustration here http://en.support.wordpress.com/visual-editor/#row-2 If you forget to do that then edit the post, highlight all in the Visual editor, select Paragraph from the Format tool, switch editor to Text then switch back to Visual and click Update.
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Specifically note Single line indents here > http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2009/06/19/formatting-text-pt-2/
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Thank you for taking time to help me. I found the links very useful and have bookmarked the site for reference.
Actually, my problem was not with spacing between paragraphs (which you deal with above) but adding spaces or indents at the start of a new line (which I found was dealt with under Indents on the website you directed me to).
In particular, I’ve successfully used the insertion of invisible characters (e.g. +++) via the Text Editor. This works, even after reverting to see things in the Visual Editor, and is easy enough to do – provided I type the example of the HTML code carefully!
I’ve also discovered an alternative way of indenting text – from a different website that turned up through an internet search. This is to insert the HTML code for added padding at the left margin. But I find it more laborious than your invisible characters and liable to insert an unwanted line break as well.
So very many thanks!
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