title: Editing spacing of bullet points in abstract of the YAML portion of an R Markdown document?
body: <p>How do I get all these bullet points to line up in the abstract of my R Markdown document? I've tried so many permutations of spaces, tabs, newlines, etc., that my head is spinning. There has to be an easy way. </p>
  
  <pre><code>---
  title: "Untitled"
  author: "Me"
  date: "Tuesday, June 16, 2015"
  output: 
    pdf_document:
      toc: true
      number_section: true
  abstract: | 
    * Foo
    * Bar
    * Baz
  ---
  
  # My first section #
  
  hello 
  </code></pre>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/olFN9.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>