> On Tue, 22 May 2007, Blake Haswell wrote:
>
>> I think there are only two really appropriate ways to mark-up poetry.
>> Using <pre> tags, or using paragraphs to mark-up the stanza's and the
>> <br> tag to show line-breaks. Possibly using an OL to mark it up as an
>> ordered list, but that's only an option if you need to have the line
>> numbers written, and even then I think it's pretty messy.
>
> Using OL or UL is quite acceptable as far as styled presentation is
> considered, since you can set list-style-type: none and margin: 0 and
> padding: 0. You can also set
>
> li { margin-left: 1em;
> text-indent: -1em; }
>
> so that if a line is longer than fits into the canvas, it is wrapped but
> so that the second line is indented, letting the user infer the
> intended division into lines. (Similar styling can be used in the DIV
> approach that I mentioned earlier.)
>
> What's problematic in using OL or UL is the unstyled presentation.
>
> --
> Jukka "Yucca" Korpela, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/
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Of course, in XHTML 2.0, they will be doing away with the <br /> tag.
Don't count this as a victory. They're replacing it with the <line>The
quick brown ...</line> syntax. So, clearly, the W3C believes that
paragraphs should be broken down somewhat.
Just something to consider.
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