Cannot Indent Paragraphs? [Harlowe]

Bridger

The documentation seems to indicate that white space won't be collapsed unless you put it in braces {}, but when I go to test my story the Indents that I made (using tab) to mark new paragraphs were not there. Am I missing something? Or does it always collapse whitespace?

Claretta

You're better off using the css text-indent property.

p {
    text-indent: 50px;
}

Bridger

I added that to the stylesheet but still saw no difference. Is there a reason the indents i make in the editor don't carry over?

greyelf

By default in HTML things like spaces and tab indents are absorbed in most siturations. If you want to indent a particular piece of text within a passage I suggest wrapping that text in a p element (paragraph) and then using CSS to change the paragraph's indentation.

a. Passage contents:

This text is not indented
<p>This text is indented</p>

b. CSS to place in your story's Stylesheet:

tw-passage p {
	text-indent: 2em;
}

Claretta

Bridger wrote: »

I added that to the stylesheet but still saw no difference. Is there a reason the indents i make in the editor don't carry over?

Yeah Harlowe just has its own special HTML structure I am unfamiliar with, so the tw-passage as suggested by greyelf will work.

Bridger

Ugh, typing <p>paragraph of text</p> is way to big a pain in the ass while writing, especially writing dialogue where a paragraph might be a single sentence. There's no way to automate that?

I'm just surprised an application designed for story writing wouldn't handle indentations considering it's used in every single book I've ever read.

Claretta

SugarCube might make some attempt to convert linebreaks to <p> tags, but am not sure. Otherwise you might be able to find a html writing tool that does that if you don't mind writing in one tool and transferring to another. I know Wordpress does it.

If you're trying to mimic book layouts though, it is necessary to use <p> tags however you get them. <p> tags let you set line heights and such. You won't find any book formatted with carriage returns, as it gives far too much white space to the page.