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Option to show tabs at start of paragraph

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Tony Helinsky

31 Aug, 2015 06:20 AM

Sometimes when writing some people in some situations prefer to actually use tabs to indent all paragraphs but the first paragraph after a heading.

When previewing such a document in Marked 2 (and most other Markdown previewers) such a tab is removed.

it would be awesome if it would be possible to add a feature to Marked 2 to optionally select to keep tabs at start of paragraph when rendering.

Thanks for listening!

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1. Support Staff 1 Posted by Brett on 02 Sep, 2015 11:18 AM

   

   Leading indentation is always ignored in Markdown, and an empty line is
   required to start a new paragraph. It's not worth indenting the way you
   have in the original Markdown, you'd be far better served to add space
   between paragraphs and start text at the left edge. You can then modify
   the output using CSS. Either in a custom style or in the Additional CSS
   field in Style preferences, use something like:

   p {
      margin-top: 0;
      margin-bottom: 0;
      padding-bottom: 0;
   }
   p + p {
      text-indent: 2em;
   }

   -Brett

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2. 2 Posted by Tony Helinsky on 02 Sep, 2015 02:05 PM

   

   Thanks for your reply.

   I know that what you are saying is the correct way to do it.

   It is just that for some type of writing this way of writing with indentation and without empty lines between paragraphs as it flows really well and is easier to follow. In some strange instances.

   It would be super duper amazingly fabulous if it was possible to optionally honor indentation, even though it is against the rules and the standard.

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3. 3 Posted by Tony Helinsky on 02 Sep, 2015 02:19 PM

   

   Hi

   Thanks for your reply.

   I know that what you are saying is the correct way to do it.

   It is just that for some type of writing this way of writing with indentation and without empty lines between paragraphs as it flows really well and is easier to follow. In some strange instances.

   It would be super duper amazingly fabulous if it was possible to optionally honor indentation, even though it is against the rules and the standard.

   /Tony

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4. Support Staff 4 Posted by Brett on 02 Sep, 2015 02:21 PM

   

   It can't be done with Markdown, sorry. Marked was built to be flexible,
   though, so it can be extended via custom processors and custom styles to
   fit edge cases like this.

   -Brett

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5. 5 Posted by Tony Helinsky on 02 Sep, 2015 02:40 PM

   

   Got it :-)

   Thanks!

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