On Thu, 22 Dec 2005 15:31:50 -0700, joey <joey@joeysmith.com> wrote: | On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 02:04:59PM +0000, Dave Fawthrop wrote: | > On Tue, 20 Dec 2005 19:05:31 -0700, Wally Thompson | > <wally.thompson@gmail.com> wrote: | > | > | 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. | > | > When producing a .txt file it is easy. | > | > I insert spaces at the beginning of a line, just as I do when | > programming. | > | > My paragraphs are just two consecutive new lines. | > | > IME tabs can be anything from 2 to 8 spaces and so often display | > wrongly. | > -- | | As somewhat of a poet, I'm curious: How do you distinguish between leading spaces | that are part of the content (something I use regularly in my own poetry) and | spaces that are meant to indicate line continuation (or lack thereof)? I had forgotten to mention that :-( I put several extra spaces before the line continuation parts. The number of spaces depends on the layout of the poem, but I have not failed to visually disambiguate the various uses of spaces. -- Dave Fawthrop <dave hyphenologist co uk> "Intelligent Design?" my knees say *not*. "Intelligent Design?" my back says *not*. More like "Incompetent design". Sig (C) Copyright Public Domain