I am new to Emacs, using it to structure text/ideas. After enabling word wrap from the menu and doing M-x org-indent-mode, I would like my document to look like this (the returns in the middle of sentences should be soft returns that adapt to the width of the window):
* The idea
* Example One
Curabitur suscipit et dui quis placerat. Nunc aliquam posuere elit,
maximus velit elementum non. Cras accumsan ex velit, eu semper arcu
fermentum vel.
+ Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Proin
gravida tincidunt magna, mattis mattis massa maximus sed. Donec
varius vestibulum nibh imperdiet tristique. Vestibulum sit amet
lacinia nibh.
- Integer eu dapibus nulla.
- Nam varius risus dolor, eu ultricies lorem ultrices et. Nulla
bibendum lectus dui, eget iaculis velit posuere sed. Donec
imperdiet felis dui, eget sodales sem feugiat nec.
Whereas now it looks like:
* The idea
* Example One
Curabitur suscipit et dui quis placerat. Nunc aliquam posuere elit,
maximus velit elementum non. Cras accumsan ex velit, eu semper arcu
fermentum vel.
+ Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Proin
gravida tincidunt magna, mattis mattis massa maximus sed. Donec
varius vestibulum nibh imperdiet tristique. Vestibulum sit amet
lacinia nibh.
- Integer eu dapibus nulla.
- Nam varius risus dolor, eu ultricies lorem ultrices et. Nulla
bibendum lectus dui, eget iaculis velit posuere sed. Donec
imperdiet felis dui, eget sodales sem feugiat nec.
... because the indentation always reverts to that used below the last *-marked header. The - and + list bullets (and their manually given indentation) are not considered in the automatic indentation of the wrapped text.
Using headers throughout would be messy/clumsy/overkill since the text blocks at the + and - marks are not titles.
Is there a way? Thank you.
C-j(org-return-indent). To fix your current bullets, try joining the lines (so that each bullet takes up only one line) and then hittingM-qto fill paragraph.C-jseems to do the same as Return then Tab, butM-qdoes indeed do the paragraph indentation right - didn't know about that! It still doesn't seem to be a full solution, since (1) unlike with org-indent-mode there is no indentation for headers, and (2)M-qseems to introduce hard returns (at least so it seems when I copy a paragraph and paste it into a different program). I should mention in the question that that isn't the intention. Thanks for the suggestions though.