[pmwiki-users] How to indent first line of a paragraph only?

Patrick R. Michaud pmichaud at pobox.com
Mon Jul 25 19:00:37 CDT 2005


On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 01:36:56PM -0700, H. Fox wrote:
> A pedantic point about writhing style (a subject on which I'm not an
> expert): Either paragraphs should be separated by a blank line *or*
> the first line is indented.  Not both.  (I learned this the hard way.)
> [...]
> So if you want PmWiki to produce output that's "just like in books"
> you'll need to get rid of the space between paragraphs.

Just to expand on this; it might be possible to use a separate
print-media stylesheet to provide the different indentation style
for printed output as opposed to on-screen output.  Probably something
on the order of:

   p.vspace { margin:0px; }
   p { text-indent:40px; }

which will eliminate blank lines and cause all paragraphs to
have their first lines indented.

Pm




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