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