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We interrupt this “lorem ipsum” to bring you a markdown blockquote, featuring a vertical bar down the left-hand side. Here in
ask.libreoffice.orgit is simply “blockquote”. Nice and easy.And it allows multiple paragraphs like this, etc.
Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit…
I’m new to doing things properly in LO. But I didn’t find a way, such as the above “blockquote” example, to do the same sort of thing in LO. Some flexibility in displaying the LH would be a neat bonus, as would an option for an RH bar, and tweaking the spacing around the inserted material.
I did some playing around with a frame. And superficially that gave the appearance of being moderately successful. BUT:
- There didn’t seem to be any “style” set up for doing multiple instances of such a frame. There may not be any, and that itself may be explained by…
- Other conversations here on
ask...suggest avoiding frames, and for various reasons (and I tend to agree with them)
Given that frames are not the ideal way to do it (and my playing already found a couple of problems, reinforcing the “don’t use frames for this” advice)…
Is there an approved LO structural mechanism to insert such blockquote-like blocks of structured text? (I’m new; I may well have missed the obvious…)