1st Paragraph Indentation

89 votes

I don't like that Dabble doesn't indent the first paragraph. I would like to modify this.

Done Suggested by: Jacob from Dabble (30 Nov, '17) • Upvoted: 14 May, '23 • Comments: 11

Comments: 11

01 Dec, '17
Violet
+1. This bugs me so much.
01 Dec, '17
Sunny J. Reed
Ha, I actually like the way it looks! I'd just add that maybe give an option to drop-cap the first letter in a chapter.
03 Dec, '17
Nina Light
+1, Sunny J. Reed. And if there were drop caps for the first paragraph... :-)
31 Dec, '17
Chet Sandberg
This drives me nuts in second scenes within a chapter. It just looks wrong.
03 Jan, '18
Rebekah D. Cook
Yes, please! I don't mind it at the beginning of a chapter so much (although it's not my preference), but not having indents for the first paragraph of later scenes in a chapter makes me soooooo twitchy.
02 Apr, '18
Emily
When you press enter for the second paragraph there is an indentation, but there's no way to reverse it. I wish I could backspace to get rid of the indentation when I don't want it...
12 Dec, '18
Cedar
Actually - I kind of like that the first paragraph doesn't indent. if it's a scene break, there should be a space here anyway. What bugs me more is that I can't control the indents myself. Especially for my nonfiction work, I need to be able to just not indent some stuff, and I haven't found a way to do that in dabble.
16 Mar, '19
Anna
It really bothers me that there isn't an indent on the first paragraph, or even just a larger initial capital, it looks wrong and messy to me
20 Apr, '19
Joanna VanDeWater
Same perspective. Annoying.
11 May, '20
E.C.
I agree. I wish I could control the indent
05 Feb, '22
Kimm Antell
TBH, i wish there was an option to have it indent the first line automatically, but to be able to turn it off on specific lines. There are times, like with headings and poems, where I DON’T want it indented. It just looks wrong.