How do you indent the first line of a paragraph (for prose, not poetry)?
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I want to post text that looks like a page from a novel where the first line of each paragraph is indented. The “Writing and formatting Poetry” support page describes how to do this for poetry, but when I tried it my text was expanded sideways and the blog displayed a sideways navigation bar.
I tried pasting from Word, using the Word insert tool, but the indent formatting was lost.The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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That is rather odd. http://en.support.wordpress.com/writing-and-formatting-poetry/#word-spacing should work for that too.
Would you please try again and give us a link to the post if it still doesn’t work?
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I followed the instructions in the above support and my text entrynow looks like this:
The silence ....... [text continues for six paragraphs]
and the result is that a navigation bar has appeared, and there are no indents. Do I have to manually indent each line with a style command?
The link to the page is here:
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OK, I tried again with a style command at the start of each paragraph and an end style command at the end of each paragraph and I got the effect I wanted.
So, does this mean there is no way to copy indents over from Word or to use a global style command that will indent each first line, and the style command I used has to be entered for each line I want indented?
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Yes, it would have to be entered for each line.
Word is a word processor, not an HTML editor, so a great deal of its formatting is actually proprietary and impossible for us to translate, even if you use the Paste from Word button.
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