line breaks and hanging lines

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  inkrementalist · Member · Oct 15, 2013 at 11:56 am

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  Hi, I’m trying to lay out a poem and some of the lines need to start beneath the end of the previous line. It’s aesthetic but it’s also important to how I want a piece to feel.

  Something
  like this (assuming it worked).

  But the editor relentlessly justifies every new line to the left. If I try and use spaces to create the effect, they get deleted. I managed to copy/paste from a different site for one, but now that doesn’t work.

  Halpz?

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  inkrementalist · Member · Oct 15, 2013 at 11:57 am

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  lol it didn’t work… the ‘like this’ was meant to hang.

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  inkrementalist · Member · Oct 15, 2013 at 12:07 pm

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  like
  …….. this

  but without
  ……………….. the periods

  And how do i turn off automatic new paragraph for line breaks?

  (Text editors that dictate how I should lay my writing out smh)

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  justpi · Member · Oct 15, 2013 at 8:03 pm

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  To insert a line break instead of a paragraph break, you press shift-enter in the Visual editor.
  To indent a line, you need to add some code in the so-called Text editor. See this post of mine, under “Single line indents”:

  Formatting text pt. 2: indents and blockquotes