horizontal space/indent and HTML/PDF

[Alan Hogan]

On Oct 30, 2012, at 11:23 AM, Koralatov <lists at koralatov.com> wrote:


> On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 15:57, Chris Lott wrote:

> 

>> What is the best method to introduce horizontal space in text in a

>> Pandoc document? Preferably something that would work for both HTML and

>> PDF output?

>> I need this for some poetry that has indented lines, ala the 2nd and 3rd

>> lines:

>> hickory dickory dock

>>   the most ran up the clock

>>        the clock struck one

>> the mouse ran down

> 

> The other suggestions are all better than the one I’m about to make, so

> consider yourself forewarned.

> 

> I’m personally do it using code spaces, like so:

> 

> hickory dickory dock  `    `the most ran up the clock  `         `the clock struck one  the mouse ran down  

> The spaces contained inside the code will be printed as they are, and it

> shouldn’t interfere with later Markdown syntax because they’re terminated

> already.  It’s a pretty ugly, low-tech solution though.


If you are controlling the output HTML & PDF, this “won’t” be a problem,
but many stylesheets (such as my own) style such incline `<code>` elements
to have a slightly colored background. It is definitely an ugly solution
in that it does not produce portable or semantic output.

AJH
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