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LendriMujina Since: Feb, 2022
2024-09-22 21:01:16

Firstly, when you're talking about the actor, that's not a spoiler for the work. Even if you claim it spoils the reveal, anyone familiar with anything else Nef did would already know that.

There's also no way to do what you're trying to. There's not really a reason to, either.

Vilui Since: May, 2009
2024-09-22 21:09:36

Check Text Formatting Rules for questions like this.

For this specific question, prefix the line after the quote with three colons.

Agreed that that's misuse of spoiler markup.

DeesbyFi Since: Jun, 2020
2024-09-22 21:11:04

The reason is that the sentence "L Roy Dunham is played by..." sits further left than all the bulleted examples.

Fair point about the spoiler.

DeesbyFi Since: Jun, 2020
2024-09-22 21:15:18

Thanks Tropers/Viuli - that changes the font size and changes the formatting significantly. All I want to do is add a space or two in front of the paragraph.

I looked at the page extensively. I tried every iteration of:

To add padding to the text from the left, use [[indent:Number:Text goes here]]:

Text goes here

And couldn't get anything to work.

Vilui Since: May, 2009
2024-09-22 21:21:30

That's odd... going to test it myself.

  • One bullet point
    A quote
    A line with three colons

Don't see a change in font size, but it's too far out. Let's try two.

  • One bullet point
    A quote
A line with two colons

Still too far out, but one colon doesn't result in special formatting at all. Sorry, I shouldn't have blindly trusted what the page said.

Edited by Vilui
DeesbyFi Since: Jun, 2020
2024-09-22 21:55:10

Thanks for trying. I ended up inserting 3x blank text characters, which seemed to work okay.

Amonimus (Sergeant)
2024-09-23 00:37:49

"concluding sentence underneath the quote".

Instead of making exceptions to the markup policy, I think it'd be more convenient to just not do that.

  • The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel has an in-joke where Midge goes to confront a journalist she believes to be a man — the ambiguously named L. Roy Dunham. She approaches the desk of a woman she assumes to be Dunham's assistant. Dunham walks away, returns, and flips around the nameplate on her desk revealing herself as L. Roy Dunham. L. Roy Dunham is played by trans actor Hari Nef.
    Midge: But you're a woman!
    L. Roy Dunham: [with faux shock] What?!
    Midge: And you've always been a woman?
    L Roy Dunham: I have, yes. Be a better story if I hadn't though, right?

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dcutter2 Since: Sep, 2013
2024-09-23 07:56:10

That doesn't seem to Actor-Shared Background anyway? If she's playing a cis character? The line's more of an Actor Allusion?

Florestan Since: May, 2015
2024-09-23 12:49:50

^^ But what if you really want to write an example, have a quote in the middle of the example, and then continue with the example text? I mean, there is no rule that a quote must necessarily come at the end of an example; that would be too restrictive for no good reason. There's no rule against a quote in the middle of the example description; but how to format the rest of the text that it aligns? I seem to remember having this problem at some time in the past.

dcutter2 Since: Sep, 2013
2024-09-23 13:15:33

Text Formatting Rules says:

If you need to continue a bullet point after a quote, you can use colon indentation (see Definition Lists above) to match the indentation level. The number of colons to use is "bullet level + 2" — so three colons for a first-level bullet, four colons for a second-level bullet, etc. For example:

eta: Oops this was already covered above and does not seem to work as promised.

Edited by dcutter2
Amonimus (Sergeant)
2024-09-23 13:27:11

^^ Then I'd really ask to reconsider because current formatting engine doesn't support these cases. Or to not use the quote format in the first place and place quotes in-line.

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wingedcatgirl MOD (Holding A Herring)
2024-09-23 16:54:20

Colon indentation used to work exactly as described, but an update some years ago changed that for reasons unknown to me. note 

Suddenly I'm... still rotating Fallen London in my mind even though I've stopped actively playing it.
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