On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 11:57 AM, Chris Lott <ch...@chrislott.org> 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?
Well, there are a few different things you could try: The easiest would be to put the entire poem in a code block. Of course, that may not be as pretty (with a monospaced font) and you lose inline markdown (emphasis, links, etc). http://johnmacfarlane.net/babelmark2/?normalize=1&text=++++hickory+dickory+dock%0A++++++++the+mouse+ran+up+the+clock%0A+++++++++++++the+clock+struck+one%0A++++the+mouse+ran+down A second option would be to use html entities for non-braking spaces (` `). You only need to make every other space non-breaking. And don't forget to end each line with two spaces to force the line breaks. Like this: hickory dickory dock the mouse ran up the clock the clock struck one the mouse ran down http://johnmacfarlane.net/babelmark2/?normalize=1&text=hickory+dickory+dock++%0A+%26nbsp%3B+%26nbsp%3B+%26nbsp%3B+the+mouse+ran+up+the+clock++%0A+%26nbsp%3B+%26nbsp%3B+%26nbsp%3B+%26nbsp%3B+%26nbsp%3B+%26nbsp%3B+%26nbsp%3B+%26nbsp%3B+the+clock+struck+one++%0Athe+mouse+ran+down Of course, that doesn't look so nice in markdown, but works great in HTML. The HTML spec actually suggests that poetry could be wrapped in a `<pre>` tag (but without the inner `<code>` tags of the code block). So, you could use raw html like this: <pre> hickory dickory dock the mouse ran up the clock the clock struck one the mouse ran down </pre> http://johnmacfarlane.net/babelmark2/?normalize=1&text=%3Cpre%3E%0Ahickory+dickory+dock%0A++++the+mouse+ran+up+the+clock%0A+++++++++the+clock+struck+one%0Athe+mouse+ran+down%0A%3C%2Fpre%3E I'm not sure if Pandoc will parse inline markdown in there or not (some parers might if you set markdown=1 on the pre tag). And I'm not sure how any of the above will translate to PDF. But that should get you started. -- ---- \X/ /-\ `/ |_ /-\ |\| Waylan Limberg _______________________________________________ Markdown-Discuss mailing list Markdown-Discuss@six.pairlist.net http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/markdown-discuss
