Mojca Miklavec wrote:
Paul Tremblay wrote:
What is the best way to number lines of poetry?
1 This is the first line
This is the second line
...
5 this is the fifth
...
10 this is the tenth.
This is a solution, written in plain TeX. I hope it is commented well
enough so that you can change it if necessary. You have to surrond the
code with \start...\stop..., but I hope you can do it, otherwise ask
again on the list.
You can change the current line number any time by simply typing
\lineno=999. You probably have to set \lineno to 0 every time you
start typesetting a poem and restore \everypar={} after you are done
with the current poem (in the definition of \startnumberedpoem ...
\stopnumberedpoem of course, not manually).
The code attaches some stuff before every paragraph and there's a
macro that checks if the current paragraph number is divisible by
five. It is a macro with square complexity, so if you want to typeset
Iliad or Odyssey :), please let me know so that I'll change it to be
more efficient :)
The code has a small drawback: you have to write \\ for blank lines.
After I wrote the maco I noticed some comments about redefining the
\par command in Appendix D of the TeXBOOK, typesetting verbatim. If I
manage to fix that too, I'll post it here.
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
% new counter for counting lines
% it is set to 0 at the beginning,
% but you can redefine it any time by saying \lineno=7 or similar
\newcount\lineno
% if 0, nothing happens, if 1, no line number will be printed
% and the line number won't advance for one
\newcount\isemptyline
% templineno = lineno + 5
% do {
% templineno = templineno - 5
% } while (templineno > 5);
%
% if (templineno == 0) {
% print lineno
% }
% only prints \the\lineno if it is divisible by 5
\def\printonlyfives{%
% define a new counter 'templineno'
\newcount\templineno
% set the temporary counter to the line counter
\templineno=\lineno
% subtract 5 from the temporary counter as long as the counter is
positive
\advance\templineno by5
\loop\advance\templineno by-5\ifnum\templineno>5\repeat
% if the line number is divisible by 5, the temporary counter is 0
% and the line number will be printed out
\ifnum\templineno=0{\the\lineno}\fi}
% add this before every paragraph:
% - if this is not an empty line
% - add one to the line number
% - print the line number (if divisible by five)
% - hfill (for right alignment)
\everypar={\ifnum\isemptyline=0 \advance\lineno by1 \printonlyfives\fi\hfill}
% (if '\\' is already defined for something else,
% you can use some other command name here)
% this will switch off line numbering, make a new line
% and switch line numbering on again
\def\\{\isemptyline=1\crlf\isemptyline=0}
\obeylines
\dorecurse{30}{the text goes here\par}
\setuplinenumbering
[start=2,
step=2,
distance=-1em]
\startlinenumbering
\startlines
\fakewords{5}{8}
\fakewords{5}{8}
\fakewords{5}{8}
\fakewords{5}{8}
\fakewords{5}{8}
\fakewords{5}{8}
\fakewords{5}{8}
\fakewords{5}{8}
\stoplines
\stoplinenumbering
\setupparagraphnumbering[state=start,distance=-1em]
\fakewords{5}{8} \par
\fakewords{5}{8} \par
\fakewords{5}{8} \par
\fakewords{5}{8} \par
\fakewords{5}{8} \par
\fakewords{5}{8} \par
\fakewords{5}{8} \par
\fakewords{5}{8} \par
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