Indented lines & the Medium Editor

For poets, the need to indent lines is often a must. Here’s how I did it.

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The Medium text editor isn’t kind to indents. So here’s a couple of ideas.

Backtick

To do this write 3 backticks in a row [```] at the beginning of a line and hit Enter. Note the backtick [`] character should not to be confused with the single quote [‘].

This is shown below.

The writing here
   is indented
      So you can break your thoughts
          gracefully...

This technique is used for writing source code for programmers where indents are must. A limitation is the background formatting is grey and the font is mono-spaced.

Embedded Special Characters

In the The Blue Egg I use a different technique to achieve indenting in the normal editor as shown below. The following lines are indented:

this line is not indented
​ ​ ​​ this is indented 1 time
​ ​ ​​​ ​ ​​​ ​ ​​​this line is indented 2 times
​ ​ ​​​ ​ ​​​ ​ ​​​ ​ ​​​ ​ ​​this line is indented 3 times
​ ​ ​​​ ​​ ​​​ ​ ​​ ​ ​​​ ​ ​​ ​ ​​​ ​ ​this line is indented 4 times