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)?