How can I indent the first line of a paragraph when posting a new story?

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Fri, 2012-07-13 14:04

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How can I indent the first line of a paragraph when posting a new story?

Hi everyone,

I am new to ABCTales, so sorry if this has been answered elsewhere!

I have been advised that making it clear where paragraphs begin can aid in persuading readers to continue reading a story.
So far, though, I haven't been able to find how to indent the first line of each paragraph in the Preview pane when adding a story (apart from putting a line break and thus a white line between each and every paragraph), which I'd rather avoid.
Is there a particular control code (e.g. ^t as in Microsoft Word) or html code that is acceptable when submitting a story. I even tried adding five spaces before the beginning of each paragraph, but to no avail. Can anyone help, please? I have a new story fresh off the fingers which I want to publish here and can't because of this niggle :-)

Many thanks,

Bryan
Northern Greece

Fri, 2012-07-13 14:40

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bryanhollamby's picture

I have discovered that straightforward html "forced, non-breaking spaces" code works - I just added the html sequence & n b s p ; (without spaces - I added spaces as it would otherwise come out here as an empty space), and it is an ampersand (&) followed immediately (without those gaps) by nbsp (non-breaking space) and immediately afterwards by a semi-colon. I added this five times in a line at the beginning of each paragraph (using Replace in Word) and got a decent indent of five empty spaces before each paragraph in the story. Thanks again for the help, Stan! Bryan

Fri, 2012-07-13 15:19

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bryanhollamby's picture

Thanks FTSE100, I'll see how it goes. Old habits die hard, I suppose :-) Non-breaking space html works, from what I see...

Fri, 2012-07-13 15:40

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bryanhollamby's picture

Well, faced with electric eels, I'll relent :-)

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