Adding Tabs in Wikispaces

2014-08-29

azim58 - Adding Tabs in Wikispaces

Tabs can be added to a wikispaces document by using the wikitext editor.
To access the wikitext editor, click edit, then right click the arrow
next to save, and then select the wikitext editor. A tab can be added
with the following symbol: "> ". Note that the quotations aren't used,
and the space after the ">" is necessary. For two indents, use ">> ". For
three indents, use ">>> ", and so on. See the following link for more
information about wikitext editor markup:

https://help.wikispaces.com/Wikitext

If one already has some indented text (that is not in a program like
Word), and you want to convert it into the wikitext format a few simple
regex replacements can be used. One nice online tool for doing regular
expressions can be found here:

http://www.gskinner.com/RegExr/

To replace indents with the wikitext markup just

replace "\t" with ">"
(don't use quotations of course)

then replace "((>)+)" with "$1 "

Here is some indented text:

* The dog ran over
  o to the store

Another option for converting indented text to look correctly in
wikispaces is to simply copy the text and copy it into an added "Code"
widget.

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