I'd like the following 4 lines to render as 4 lines both on github, and in pandoc -t html:

line 1
line 2
    line 3 indented 4 spaces
    line 4 indented 4 spaces

Is there a way of doing this other than \   i.e. backslash-and-nbsp-;   ?


Bytheway gist.github renders .md with leading periods "...." turned into spaces ?!
afaik an undocumented feature, aaargh.

Thanks
  -- denis