Multiple blank ( ) in the body of an article

alonsocreative · 2009-05-13 20:53:46

Hi, I’m creating a site for a writer and she wants to be able to add multiple consecutive blank spaces on a line to indent lines of text differently for her poems, if we do this in the write tab is not respected once the article renders.

Any tips on how to achieve this?

Thanks!!!!!!

jsoo · 2009-05-13 21:15:25

Disable Textile for the entire article or for the HTML element containing the poem (see Raw HTML section of the Textile guide.)

els · 2009-05-13 21:18:34

One way is to add spans and style a couple of classes in the CSS, the text can be entered like this:

%(indent-1)first line%
%(indent-2)second line%
...etcetera

which will output

<span class="indent-1">first line</span>
<span class="indent-2">second line</span>

but if the user wants more flexibility, using pre. would probably be simpler; you’d only have to style the pre to look like regular text. This input:

pre. no spaces
 one space
    four spaces
          ten spaces

will output:

no spaces
 one space
    four spaces
          ten spaces

Last edited by els (2009-05-13 21:19:16)

alonsocreative · 2009-05-13 22:33:40

Awesome! I think pre is exactly what was needed.

Thanks Els!

masa · 2009-05-13 23:57:40

You should be able to simply use non-breaking spaces to indent text in the input field.
On a Mac a non-breaking space is created by pressing alt+space; there’ll be a similar key combo on a PC.

Gocom · 2009-05-14 01:48:28

masa wrote:

there’ll be a similar key combo on a PC

Which on MS Windows is ALT+0160. Mac is a personal computer too…

masa · 2009-05-14 20:33:55

Gocom wrote:

Which on MS Windows is ALT+0160. Mac is a personal computer too…

Sorry, I’m just stuck in those well-established stereotypes.

However, how do you actually enter something like ALT+0160 ? Is that four separate key strokes?

Perhaps “PC” stands for “Painful Computer” ? ;-)

the_ghost · 2009-05-14 20:47:42

masa

press down left alt
press one-by-one 0 1 6 0 on the right digital keypad
release alt key

masa · 2009-05-14 20:51:03

That is painful ;-)

Timid&friendly · 2009-05-15 06:57:59

you might have to style the pre tag as the standard font will almost certainly be a monospaced font, different to the rest of the body

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