Forum Moderators: mack
Firstly, you could use non-breaking spaces as a substitute tab:
My first line of text
would give you a four space indent.
Secondly, if you're prepared to give up the use of font tags and embrace cascading style sheets, try posting your question in the CSS forum. They're a nice bunch, and they'll be able to help you style <p> tags to automatically indent at the start of new paragraphs.