lee said:
Absolutely not. In essence,
ok. i stand corrected. on tidy. but tidy was primarily an aside. (however, you are now officially _exonerated_ for not knowing of the leading-space convention.) as for z.m.l., the rules stand. any line of poetry must have one or more leading spaces. (the number of spaces should indicate the desired indent.) this prevents the line from wrapping to the line above it, in a rewrap situation. it also prevents the line below it from wrapping to it, by the way. because of this simple rule, a poem (or a block quote, or any of many other structures) that is embedded in a paragraph is always quite easy to recognize, whether it ends the paragraph or not. i've written another message that covers wally's specific examples in detail, so any questions should be deferred until i've posted that... -bowerbird