Jim Adcock wrote on Fri Feb 17 (somewhat precised by me):
... the common PG/DP approach which I think is being generated by guiguts is not bad: ... ... <style type="text/css"> ... .poem span.i0 {display: block; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 3em; text-indent: -3em;} ... .poem span.i2 {display: block; margin-left: 1em; padding-left: 3em; text-indent: -3em;} ... .poem span.i4 {display: block; margin-left: 2em; padding-left: 3em; text-indent: -3em;} ... </style> ... ... <div class="poem"> ... <div class="stanza"> ... <span class="i0">There was a young man of St. Kitts,<br /></span> ... <span class="i0">Who was very much troubled with fits;<br /></span> ... <span class="i2"> The eclipse of the moon<br /></span> ... <span class="i2"> Threw him into a swoon;<br /></span> ... <span class="i0">Where he tumbed and broke into bits.<br /></span> ... </div> ... </div>
The abstraction of a "line" which would ideally be displayed on one line of a small device, but with extra wrap-indent when it cannot, seems extremely useful (for those machines on which it works). A couple of questions though: 1. Is there an obvious reason not to use: div.i0 {margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 3em; text-indent: -3em;}, etc and <div class="i0">There was a young man...</div>, etc? Somehow using a tag which is inherently a block seems more simple and obvious than using a span with {display: block;} 2. Is there an unstated reason/convention for describing an indent of 1em as class=i2, 2em as class=i4, etc? This is not a trick question, I ask from curiosity/ignorance. Bob Gibbins