indention
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But a wrong letter, a space in the wrong place, a wrong indention, a wrong punctuation mark, was an error that cost a ten "word" penalty against the total score.
From Time Magazine Archive
When quotation marks occur at the beginning of a line of poetry, they should go back into the indention space.
From Punctuation A Primer of Information about the Marks of Punctuation and their Use Both Grammatically and Typographically by Frederick W. (Frederick William) Hamilton
Quotation marks, indention, smaller type, or any of the marks which distinguish quoted matter are sufficient.
From The Uses of Italic A Primer of Information Regarding the Origin and Uses of Italic Letters by Frederick W. (Frederick William) Hamilton
The left-hand margin should be three-quarters of an inch, with paragraph indention an inch more.
From The Etiquette of To-day by Edith B. Ordway
Any line containing one word only at the end of a paragraph ought to overlap the indention of the first line of the next paragraph.
From The Building of a Book A Series of Practical Articles Written by Experts in the Various Departments of Book Making and Distributing by Frederick H. Hitchcock
