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Re: poetry
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Jeff Kingston |
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Re: poetry |
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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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