indenting line

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  ferayag · Member · Jun 15, 2008 at 12:38 pm

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  how can i indent a specific line in my poem? the figures i “draw” in my concrete poems are destroyed when i upload them in my blog.

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  deltafoxtrot · Member · Jun 15, 2008 at 1:05 pm

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  Try wrapping your poems in pre-tags:

  <pre>Poem</pre>

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  dlager · Member · Jun 15, 2008 at 4:07 pm

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  what does the <‘pre> command do, deltafoxtrot ,does that create a word wrap?

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  panaghiotisadam · Member · Jun 15, 2008 at 5:01 pm

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  Preserves line-breaks and spaces of preformatted text.

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  dlager · Member · Jun 15, 2008 at 10:14 pm

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  aha! thats is a handy, especially for poetry. thanks

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  ferayag · Member · Jun 16, 2008 at 1:25 am

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  thanks, it works but the font is smaller. do you know how to make font bigger.

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  panaghiotisadam · Member · Jun 16, 2008 at 12:45 pm

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  I hadn’t noticed that (and I don’t know the answer to it); deltafoxtrot will tell us if and how it can be done.
  If it cannot, you can discard the pre tags and work your way line by line, putting /&/n/b/s/p/;/ / (minus the slashes) at the beginning of each line, as many times for as many spaces.

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  deltafoxtrot · Member · Jun 16, 2008 at 11:36 pm

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  Here’s an inline CSS solution that hopefully won’t mess with the font’s apperance. I don’t have the time to test it but you may want to give it a try.

  <pre style="font: inherit;">Poem</pre>

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  ferayag · Member · Jun 17, 2008 at 2:17 am

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  thanks panaghiotisadam and foxtrot. i’ll try your solutions.

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  ferayag · Member · Jun 17, 2008 at 3:15 am

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  foxtrot, i tried your solution; it works! thanks.

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  tellyworth · Staff · Jun 17, 2008 at 3:36 am

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  If you have the custom CSS upgrade, something like this will automatically indent the first line of each paragraph:

  .entry-content p { text-indent: 2em; }

  That’s for sandbox, the selector might be different for other themes.

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  deltafoxtrot · Member · Jun 17, 2008 at 6:46 am

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  Tellyworth, I hate to mess with one of the high and mighty WP.com Rank’n’File but I fear you’re missing the point.

  Ferayag wants to preserve concrete poetry, e.g. something like this:
  http://www.gardendigest.com/concrete/index.html

  To have code sanitation stop stripping all the deliberately added whitespace, the concrete poetry has to be wrapped in pre codes anyway. The styling (or rather un-styling to fix the appearance of the typography) I added is almost as short as a class declaration for custom CSS.

  For someone who never will post source code this custom CSS line will do

  pre{font:inherit !important;}

  Again, no offense intended.