differentiating between indentation and no indentation after poetry
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. Wally
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. -- 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
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)?
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
On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 08:08:38AM +0000, Dave Fawthrop wrote:
On Thu, 22 Dec 2005 15:31:50 -0700, joey <joey@joeysmith.com> wrote:
| | 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.
Thanks for replying! Can you explain in more detail? I'd be willing to send you one of my poems to have you markup if that would be helpful for demontration purposes. If we need to take this off-list, that's fine, because I'm not sure it involves PG as a whole.
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