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Re: poetry


From: Jeff Kingston
Subject: Re: poetry
Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2000 08:25:02 +1000

I'm not sure how to get the effect you ask for, especially without
having symbols scattered through the poetry as hooks for Lout's
machinery to work on.  I think you've offered a classic example of
why having a built-in paragraph breaker is not a good design choice.

My suggestion is to define a one-character symbol that does the
job for you, something like this:

    macro "%" { //1vx &2i "[" &0i }

You have to tell Lout where to break the line, but at least you
only have to type one character:

    Non c'era molta acqua nell'uadi, forse%qualche pozzanghera,

Not as clever as using horizontal galleys but probably more
practical.  One might even argue that breaking lines of
poetry requires semantic analysis, thus making a virtue
of necessity.

Jeff Kingston


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