Verse for indentation

tags: verse

Description/Summary

Some text before indented text.  Text indented by 4 spacesOrg removes indentation from the first line of the text block even in a Verse block. To get around that, the trick is to use the > character before the required indentation spaces only on the first non-blank line in a Verse block. Only that first > character is removed when translating to Markdown. More examples More indentation than in the above example:

Content

Some text before indented text.

    Text indented by 4 spaces

Org removes indentation from the first line of the text block even in a Verse block. To get around that, the trick is to use the > character before the required indentation spaces only on the first non-blank line in a Verse block. Only that first > character is removed when translating to Markdown.

More examples

• More indentation than in the above example:

          Text indented by 8 spaces

• Leading blank line followed by indented text:

• Indented text followed by a trailing blank line:

      Text indented by 4 spaces

• Using tab characters for indentation; each tab character still constitutes for one   in HTML.

      Text indented by 4 tab characters

Corner cases

Only the first > character immediately following spaces and empty lines will be removed:

If someone really wants to have > as the first non-blank character in the final output, they can use >> instead.. only for that first instance. The below Verse block is same as above except that the first > is retained in the final output.

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