Blake Haswell wrote: > david wrote: >> Update: after posting that, I saw someone else mention song lyrics or >> poetry. Being a writer of both, all I can say is - that each line is >> easily handled as a separate paragraph, with CSS controlling line >> spacing and left/right margins. > > But each line is *not* a paragraph. Each line is a line of a stanza > (in my mind, marked up pretty appropriately with the <p> tag). Or, in > other words, and the end of each line is a line-break.
Someone needs to propose a new XML tag - <stanza>! - that is like a paragraph but respects line breaks in the HTML source itself. > 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. I can agree with that. -- David [EMAIL PROTECTED] authenticity, honesty, community ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7 information -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
