[sorry, been out of town] Don>Is "white-space pre" usable? Jim><pre> implies the use of an ugly courier-like fixed pitch "monospace" font. Don>You lost me at your first assumption. I use it and seldom with monospace fonts. And then not because I'm using some white-space setting but because it fits the context. Not sure what you are doing but if you look up the definition of "<pre>" you will find that it switches HTML away from the default normal font to the default monospace font. If you don't want the default monospace font then you have to specify what font you do want. However, in HTML with EPUB and MOBI there is no reliable way to specify fonts that works with all the target platforms. Thus, I think if you explore PG HTML code you will find that people reliably do not specify fonts. They just use the provided defaults. But the default font associated with <pre> is the default monospace font, which is inappropriate for poetry -- unless perhaps you are coding Archy and Mehitabel -- but I have been unable to find a PD source for that one! Conclusion: No, <pre> doesn't work for poetry. Primarily because of the monospace font issue, but also because it doesn't do poetry wraps.