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Originally Posted by Lukusaukko

The title is the question. I'd like to format a block of text so that if I resize the window on a desktop, resize the text, or view on device with different line length, the second line would indent itself, so it would be obvious that the line wraps.

Why don't use simply :

p.neg_indent {
  margin: 2em; /* of course, you can write here another value */
  text-indent: -2em; /* of course, you can write here another value */
  line-height: 1.2em;
}

By the way, with JS you can get a nice layout for poetry:

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...29&postcount=5

Of course JS is only for epub3.

Regards