How to insert indent in markdown

Question

I want to make the format of my text just as below by using markdown:

wanted format

how could i write the markdown file?

Markdown is intended to produce HTML, not a specific presentation. Therefore it would be helpful to know what is the desired outcome in terms of HTML. — Jonas, Jan 12 '12 at 17:21

score 4 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 17 '21 at 15:55

As a general answer to the title of the question:

Use the "Greater-Than Sign followed by a Space (> )" will indent the line:

> This line will be indented.

This will work in not only Jupyter but also other markdowns.

E.g. The indented text shown here on the StackOverflow page is like this:

This line will be indented.

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 12 '12 at 14:15

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the sub-numbers 2.1. is not super easy to achieve in HTML, that's the limitation here.

answered Jan 12 '12 at 14:15

greut

Just wanted to mention that this solution works just by accident. The proper way would be to do it in CSS with the `counter` function. http://www.standardista.com/css3/creating-counters-with-generated-content/ – Jonas Jan 12 '12 at 17:27
@Jonas linkrot: https://web.archive.org/web/20221103084209/https://www.standardista.com/css3/creating-counters-with-generated-content/ though 2012 one is a bit more expressive: https://web.archive.org/web/2012/https://www.standardista.com/css3/creating-counters-with-generated-content/ – user8395964 Jun 25 '23 at 15:41

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