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For this specific question, prefix the line after the quote with three colons.
Agreed that that's misuse of spoiler markup.
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.
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"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?
That doesn't seem to Actor-Shared Background anyway? If she's playing a cis character? The line's more of an Actor Allusion?
^^ 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.
Text Formatting Rules says:
eta: Oops this was already covered above and does not seem to work as promised.
Edited by dcutter2^^ 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.
TroperWall / WikiMagic CleanupColon 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.

I have a single example in Actor-Shared Background. I've used a bullet appropriately and added the relevant quote below it.
I have a concluding sentence I want to add underneath the quote. How can I push the concluding sentence a bit further to the right so that it aligns with the bulleted text, but not display a bullet?
To avoid confusion, the sentence with the spoiler is the one I want to move slightly.
- 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.
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?
L. Roy Dunham is played by trans actor Hari Nef.I thought about simply using regular space bar spaces, but not sure if that would display formatting differently on PC vs phone and so on.