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• 1 media/3.jpeg 2024-11-03T10:34:06-08:00 Formatting Text with Indentations & Alignment 11 plain 2024-11-11T10:10:23-08:00 To modify indentation or alignment, click the p element (or any other element containing the text to be formatted) to open the Element Inspector. Type the appropriate style code into the rend field, as shown below. Multiple style codes may be used in the same rend field with a single space between codes.

  List of Style Code Rend Values for Text Alignment & Indentation

  
  Common Text Alignment

  Align Right - style495
  Block Quote or Epigraph (margin-left:10%; margin-right:10%) - style511

  Text Alignment with Unusual Indentation

  Left Aligned with Indent

  text-align: left; margin-left: 10% - style499
  text-align: left; margin-left: 15% - style749
  text-align: left; margin-left: 20% - style967
  text-align: left; margin-left: 25% - style500
  text-align: left; margin-left: 27% - style501
  text-align: left; margin-left: 33% - style503
  text-align: left; margin-left: 37% - style910
  text-align: left; margin-left: 50% - style1066

  Right Aligned with Indent

  text-align: right; margin-right: 10% - style927
  text-align: right; margin-right: 20%; - style925
  text-align: right; margin-right: 26.5% - style934
  text-align: right; margin-right: 35% - style938
  text-align: right; margin-right: 43% - style1024
  text-align: right; margin-right: 51% - style1025

  Both Margins Indented

  margin-left:10%; margin-right:10% - style511
  margin-left: 20%; margin-right: 20%; - style585
  margin-left: 32%; margin-right: 32% - style842

  Indent by Character Spaces

  To indent text by a certain number of character spaces (most useful in formatting individual lines of poetry), type “indent#” into the rend field, replacing # with the number of spaces to indent. For example, “indent2” would indent a line two character spaces.

  Using Caesuras

  Some texts, particularly poems, have gaps or breaks between words in a single line. To reflect these gaps in your encoding, insert a caesura element, mark it as a seg, and then enter a rend value of "indent#" with the # replaced by the number of character spaces the gap should be (e.g., indent10). See step-by-step instructions below:
  
  1. Insert a caesura element where you want the space to appear. Find the caesura element by clicking the Insert Inline icon in the top toolbar, then clicking Transcription, then caesura.
  
  2. Next, add a space before the caesura character, and then highlight the space and the caesura element. (Note: it may appear as though only the space is highlighted, but as long as you click and drag your cursor from before the space, to the right, over the caesura icon, you will have highlighted the proper text. You will see this reflected once you mark the phrase as a seg.) Click Mark Phrase in the top toolbar, then General, then select seg to add a seg element to the highlighted space + caesura element.
  
  3. Give the seg element a rend value of "indent#" with the # replaced by however many character spaces you'd like the caesura to reflect. For example, you might use "indent2" for a small space or "indent10" for a larger space.
  
  4. Your end product will show spacing between words in individual lines, like in this example:.
  
  
  
   

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