On 12/20/05, Gutenberg9443@aol.com <Gutenberg9443@aol.com> wrote:
In a message dated 12/20/2005 7:12:21 P.M. Mountain Standard Time, wally.thompson@gmail.com writes:
I'm working on a book that has poetry within the text. Sometimes a poem ends the paragraph and sometimes it does not. So I'm wondering how to handle this in the text file without leaving it ambiguous.
Wally, could you provide a brief example? I don't do much with proofreading on PG, but I am a book publisher. If I saw an example in which the poem ends the paragraph and the poem does not end the paragraph, it would help. Are you saying that in some cases the poem is within the paragraph and the paragraph continues after the poem, or that the paragraph ends but the poem carries over to the next paragraph? I've seen both, and of course they're handled differently.
Anne
Here is example 1, where a new paragraph begins directly after the poem: http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/moa/pageviewer?frames=1&coll=moa&view=50&root=%2Fmoa%2Fatla%2Fatla0018%2F&tif=00706.TIF&cite=http%3A%2F%2Fcdl.library.cornell.edu%2Fcgi-bin%2Fmoa%2Fmoa-cgi%3Fnotisid%3DABK2934-0018-102 Here is example 2, where the paragraph continues after the poem: http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/moa/pageviewer?frames=1&coll=moa&view=50&root=%2Fmoa%2Fatla%2Fatla0018%2F&tif=00739.TIF&cite=http%3A%2F%2Fcdl.library.cornell.edu%2Fcgi-bin%2Fmoa%2Fmoa-cgi%3Fnotisid%3DABK2934-0018-105 These examples come from the Atlantic Monthly, December 1866. The Gutenberg Ebook is located at http://www.gutenberg.org/files/17217/17217-8.txt. The Gutenberg Ebook formats both examples in the same way. So the reader of the ebook faces an ambiguity as to whether or not a new paragraph begins after the poem. In the book that I'm working on, I'm facing the same issue. I would like to make it clear to the reader weather or not a new paragraph begins after a poem. But I would also like to be consistent with other Gutenberg Ebooks. So I'm wondering how others have dealt with this problem. Wally