Re: horizontal space/indent and HTML/PDF

2012-10-30 Thread John MacFarlane
If you don't use emphasis or other inline formatting, it's easiest to put this in a special fenced code block ~~~ {.poetry} hickory dickory dock the mouse ran up the clock the clock struck one the mouse ran down ~~~ And then use a CSS rule like pre.poetry code { font-family: serif; }

Re: How to insert a blank line between blockquote paragraphs?

2012-10-30 Thread John MacFarlane
+++ Thomas Maibaum [Oct 30 12 19:27 ]: > Thank you, I think this makes a lot of sense. I came across Pandoc > when I first learned about Markdown and I like its extended version > of Markdown very much, in particular the fact that it supports > footnotes and tables (the same goes for Markdown Extra

Re: horizontal space/indent and HTML/PDF

2012-10-30 Thread Alan Hogan
On Oct 30, 2012, at 11:23 AM, Koralatov 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

Re: How to insert a blank line between blockquote paragraphs?

2012-10-30 Thread Thomas Maibaum
Thank you, I think this makes a lot of sense. I came across Pandoc when I first learned about Markdown and I like its extended version of Markdown very much, in particular the fact that it supports footnotes and tables (the same goes for Markdown Extra). Unfortunately, none of the tools I use

Re: How to insert a blank line between blockquote paragraphs?

2012-10-30 Thread Thomas Maibaum
Waylan Limberg, 2012-10-25 05:23: On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 9:22 PM, John MacFarlane wrote: See question 6 here: http://johnmacfarlane.net/babelmark2/faq.html#what-are-some-big-questions-that-the-markdown-spec-does-not-answer And note that pandoc allows you to create two blockquotes if you leave

Re: horizontal space/indent and HTML/PDF

2012-10-30 Thread Waylan Limberg
On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 11:57 AM, 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? Well, there are a few different things you could try: The easiest would be to put the e

Re: horizontal space/indent and HTML/PDF

2012-10-30 Thread Thomas Humiston
My short answer is CSS. I haven't used Pandoc, so the example below may need modification for use in that environment. Poetry can straddle the line between semantic structure (HTML) and presentation (CSS), particularly when it attaches semantic meaning to indentations and the like, but let's ke

horizontal space/indent and HTML/PDF

2012-10-30 Thread Chris Lott
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 cl