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EXAMPLE text-indent: 0. 5in; line-height: 120\%; text-ident accepts a percentage (relative to the parent's element) or a length. line-height defines the spacing between adjacent lines as normal, as a length, as a percentage (relative to the font size), or as a number.

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  1. transitive verb To set (the first line of a paragraph, for example) in from the margin.
  2. transitive verb To cut or tear (a document with two or more copies) along an irregular line so that the parts can later be matched for establishing authenticity.
  3. transitive verb To draw up (a document) in duplicate or triplicate.
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  • With regards to the text-indent issue mentioned in #1, keep in mind that "[t] he text-indent indents the first line of text in an element." —  The Daily Whim
  • Finally, my very own Drum Kit, after 2 months of long waiting for the indent order to arrive from USA. —  www.hardwarezone.com.sg
  • A few problems: can't indent, therefore can't do subtask via api can't display all items; have to getCompletedItems and getUncompletedItems and total 'em up can't add items to *, or groups. —  Planet MYOSS
  • Bottom 2nd: ** BIG INNING ALERT** Edmonds drives one high off the left field indent, and cruises into 2nd with a double. —  Major League Baseball
  • Collaboration institutions provide fewer opportunities for initiators as late-comers can defect at lower cost text-indent: 36. 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none "> mso-ansi-language: EN-US" > With the reports published by international organizations such as the United Nations, World Bank, IMF and OECD good governance has become a subject matter for serious research and review in the academic field.
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  1. Middle English endenten, to notch, from Anglo-Norman and Old French endenter, both from Medieval Latin indentāre : Latin in-, in; see in-2 + Latin dēns, dent-, tooth; see dent- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from in- + dent, after indent.
  2. from Middle English indenten, endenten, indent (def. I., 2), from Old French endenter, French endenter = Spanish Portuguese endentar = Italian indentare, from Middle Latin indentare, make notches in like teeth, notch, jag, indent (a document), from Latin in, in, + den(t-)s = English tooth: see dent.
  3. from indent, v.
 

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