Editing Advanced PDA Node Editing (section)

=== Indentation and Spacing ===
By default, the PDA system can only recognize one empty space in a row, and it won't recognize tabs at all. This is really annoying when you want to make an indentation, for something like an outline.

There's one basic way around this: an empty color code counts for an extra space. For example, if you need five spaces in a row, you can type: |{0,0,0} |n|{0,0,0} |n|{0,0,0} |n|{0,0,0} |n|{0,0,0} |n. 

The empty space inside each color code will be recognized, so you'll get five spaces in a row. See a visual example here: https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/yq9c32q9p84.png

There are a few ways to make this less tedious:

* [https://udcolortools.neocities.org/PDALines Caors' PDA tool] can do this automatically for you, if you want to avoid doing it by hand.
* If using Notepad to write your node, and you have standard indentations, you can do a Find and Replace. Replace five spaces with that string of five color codes and it'll be done automatically for you. (This DOES get tricky if you have things indented at, say, 5, 10, and 15 spaces each - make sure you find and replace them from the longest to the shortest, so you don't trip yourself up.)
* Alternatively, if you're comfortable with aliasing and you think you're going to be doing this kind of thing a lot? Consider writing an alias like 'indent <text>' that will enter 'datapad pda append text |{0,0,0} |n|{0,0,0} |n|{0,0,0} |n|{0,0,0} |n|{0,0,0} |n <text> for you!