Question

Is there a way to indent text inside a shape? I would like to just show some text indented by a couple spaces like the following:

line 1

  line 2

    line 3

But I can't seem to find a way to do that. Below is what I have tried. Only using characters like .. or __ works, but then those characters are visible of course. 

 

rectangle test_indent [
text
  text
* text
]

rectangle test_indent_as as "
text
  text
* text
*  text
 * text
<br>text
..text
__text
"

 

Answer 1

You can use \t :

@startuml
rectangle test_indent [
text
\ttext
\t\ttext
]
@enduml

http://www.plantuml.com/plantuml/uml/SoWkIImgAStDuIfAJIv9p4lFILKeIIqkYS_CIqdDAr68vYf9hIZXYYc1Kb16B9T3QbuAK1i0

Comments

Thanks! Is there anyway to do two character tabs rather than 4 characters>

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I guess that this may work:

skinparam tabSize 2

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Yes, that does work.  Thanks!

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It seems, this doesn't work anymore with newer versions.

Any suggestions?

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Thanks for the report.

It should be fixed in last beta (1.2020.20beta14)  http://beta.plantuml.net/plantuml.jar

We will publish this new release in the incoming days.