[cynwoody]

        It's more than a bit of a cluge, but you can indent paragraphs using only HTML. E.g., you can use a string of   entities at the beginning of each paragraph. However, to indent paragraphs cleanly, you need CSS text-indent. CSS lets you do hanging indents as well. But FR strips out CSS, alas.

[OneWingedShark]

CSS is itself a kludge* — much of the difficulties of web-dev stem from one of two things, and both are the same root-cause:

1. Trying to impose state on a stateless system, and
2. trying to use HTML [and CSS] to specify formatting,

Both of these are working against the design-goals of the underlying technology: in the case of sate HTTP is stateless (so all the Web 2.0 / AJAX crap is, essentially, trying to bolt on state[-management]) and, in the case of formatting, HTML was speciffically designed sso that the viewer [browser] could render the page appropriately… imagine, if you will, an audio-based browser for the visually impaired <Strong>some text</Strong> could be rendered [via text-to-speech] into James Earl Jones while being displayed in mere bold font for those of us normal people.

* You can tell by how difficult it is to manage layout (as opposed to formatting) such as centering both horizontally and vertically contents in a container which is itself dependent upon other containers.