At Tue, 21 Oct 2003 12:53:31 -0400,
John Culleton wrote:
> 
> Here is a deceptively simple requirement:
> An author writes poetry where lines are ended by a carriage retrun
> and stanzas are ended by a blank line. 
> 
> Problem: How to enclose those lines somehow so that all lines are 
> centered yet font changes are allowed. 
> 
> Of course \centerline{} works but this requires tagging each line.
> 
> Any thoughts, anyone?  

This worked for me:
\startalignment[middle]
\setuplines[indenting=no]
\startlines
{\it Out of his mouth a red, red rose!
Out of his heart a white!
For who can say by what strange way
Christ brings his will to light,
Since the barren staff the pilgrim bore
Bloomed in the great Pope's sight.}
\stoplines
\stopalignment

Regards,
Erik Hetzner
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