Sorry, I am not sure I follow. Please give a small example of the input you're using (markdown?).

I don't see any difference between the indentation of the man page for pandoc and, say, emacs on my system.

> On Nov 20, 2022, at 9:24 AM, Rick Stanley <rick.sta...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
> In any Standard Library man page, that displays example code, the line "Program Source" is indented by 4 spaces, and the source code is indented by 8.
> In creating my own man page, using pandoc, the "Program Source" line is indented by 8, and my source is indented by 16 spaces. I would prefer the same indentation for all my man pages.
>
> I don't have lua installed and would prefer not to use if if at all possible. I am writing pure C.
>
> Thank you!
>
> On Sunday, November 20, 2022 at 11:57:59 AM UTC-5 fiddlosopher wrote:
> Are you saying you want code blocks to be indented to the same level as the man page's body text?
>
> You could achieve that with a lua filter that resets paragraph indentation before each code block. Save this as unindent_code.lua:
>
> ```
> function CodeBlock(el)
> return { pandoc.RawBlock("man", '.IP "" 0'), el }
> end
> ```
>
> Then use --lua-filter unindent_code.lua on the command line when you convert to man.
>
>
>
> > On Nov 20, 2022, at 6:12 AM, Rick Stanley <rick.sta...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> >
> > When using __Program Source__ in creating a man page, it indents 8 spaces not 4. How to manage the indent level when using pandoc?
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