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8.1 Paragraphs: centering and quoting

Paragraphs in Muse must be separated by a blank line.

Centered paragraphs and quotations

A line that begins with six or more columns of whitespace (either tabs or spaces) indicates a centered paragraph.

But if a line begins with whitespace, though less than six columns, it indicates a quoted paragraph.

Literal paragraphs

The <example> tag is used for examples, where whitespace should be preserved, the text rendered in monospace, and any characters special to the output style escaped.

There is also the <literal> tag, which causes a marked block to be entirely left alone. This can be used for inserting a hand-coded HTML blocks into HTML output, for example.