Re: [WSG] Markup for Poetry?

2007-04-03 Thread Ben Buchanan
I'm working on a website that contains a number of poems. Are there any discussions or examples on strategies for marking up and styling poetry? I haven't started doing markup yet, but if it would help folks on the list, I could that and post the links. As is usually the case, the bare markup

[WSG] Markup for Poetry?

2007-03-29 Thread Jeremy Boggs
Hello, I'm working on a website that contains a number of poems. Are there any discussions or examples on strategies for marking up and styling poetry? I haven't started doing markup yet, but if it would help folks on the list, I could that and post the links. Thanks in advance! Jeremy

Re: [WSG] Markup for Poetry?

2007-03-29 Thread Blake
On 3/30/07, Jeremy Boggs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm working on a website that contains a number of poems. Are there any discussions or examples on strategies for marking up and styling poetry? Poetry is one of the few times when it's semantically correct to use br, IMO. For example,

Re: [WSG] Markup for Poetry?

2007-03-29 Thread Christian Montoya
On 3/29/07, Jeremy Boggs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm working on a website that contains a number of poems. Are there any discussions or examples on strategies for marking up and styling poetry? I haven't started doing markup yet, but if it would help folks on the list, I could that and

Re: [WSG] Markup for Poetry?

2007-03-29 Thread Tee G. Peng
On Mar 29, 2007, at 5:24 PM, Christian Montoya wrote: On 3/29/07, Jeremy Boggs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm working on a website that contains a number of poems. Are there any discussions or examples on strategies for marking up and styling poetry? I haven't started doing markup yet,

RE: [WSG] Markup for Poetry?

2007-03-29 Thread Philip Kiff
Jeremy Boggs wrote: Are there any discussions or examples on strategies for marking up and styling poetry? I don't know of a set of guidelines for simple markup of poetry in X/HTML, but you can find some discussions about it as well as some more involved methods of marking up such texts

Re: [WSG] Markup for Poetry?

2007-03-29 Thread Marghanita da Cruz
Tee G. Peng wrote: On Mar 29, 2007, at 5:24 PM, Christian Montoya wrote: On 3/29/07, Jeremy Boggs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm working on a website that contains a number of poems. Are there any discussions or examples on strategies for marking up and styling poetry? I haven't

Re: [WSG] Markup for Poetry?

2007-03-29 Thread David Hucklesby
On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 17:50:09 -0400, Jeremy Boggs wrote: Hello, I'm working on a website that contains a number of poems. Are there any discussions or examples on strategies for marking up and styling poetry? I haven't started doing markup yet, but if it would help folks on the list, I

Re: [WSG] Markup for Poetry?

2007-03-29 Thread Joshua Street
On 3/30/07, Jeremy Boggs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm working on a website that contains a number of poems. Are there any discussions or examples on strategies for marking up and styling poetry? I haven't started doing markup yet, but if it would help folks on the list, I could that and post the

Re: [WSG] Markup for Poetry?

2007-03-29 Thread Kenny Graham
Are there any discussions or examples on strategies for marking up and styling poetry? If you're simply looking for line breaks where they belong, use br/ [1]. If you're including poems where whitespace plays a bigger role[2], use pre. [1] until xhtml2, with its l element (which i reallly hope