Verse for indentation

tags: verse

Description/Summary

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:

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Some text before indented text.

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:

  
      Text indented by 4 spaces
  

• 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 #

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#+begin_verse

>Line 1 above was empty. So the first =>= seen on this line is removed.
Line 3 had no =>= char.
> ← See that this =>= on line 4 is retained even at the beginning of the line.
Line 5 has this > charcter in-between and is retained.
#+end_verse

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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#+begin_verse

>>Line 1 above was empty. So *only* the first =>= seen on this line is removed.
Line 3 had no =>= char.
> ← See that this =>= on line 4 is retained even at the beginning of the line.
Line 5 has this > charcter in-between and is retained.
#+end_verse

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