Re: [WSG] RE: Poetry needing block format but with line-breaks

2010-02-17 Thread Matthew Pennell
On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 10:54 PM, Susie Gardner-Brown wrote:

>  Oh, thanks Jens – I forgot about that option!! I’ll give it a go .
>
> And Brad – yes I am using the  tag, but that stops it being
> block-formatted ...
>

I did some work for a poetry trust recently, and I set up two different
templates for displaying poems. One allowed for line breaks (so lines would
break correctly), and the other one used  to preserve formatting for
poems where the shape of the text was important.

- Matthew


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Re: [WSG] RE: Poetry needing block format but with line-breaks

2010-02-16 Thread Susie Gardner-Brown
Oh, thanks Jens ­ I forgot about that option!! I¹ll give it a go .

And Brad ­ yes I am using the  tag, but that stops it being
block-formatted ...

Cheers
susie


On 17/02/10 8:40 AM, "Jens-Uwe Korff"  wrote:

>> > I¹m doing a poetry Œzine. Quite a lot of poets want to set the way the poem
>> looks as well as sounds; and one poem needs to be in block format, but with
>> lines breaking at specific words, so I have to use the line-break ...
> 
> 
>  
> Hi Susie,
>  
> did you try using  to preserve whitespace (which includes line breaks)?
>  
> 
> Cheers,
>  
> Jens 
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[WSG] RE: Poetry needing block format but with line-breaks

2010-02-16 Thread Jens-Uwe Korff
> I'm doing a poetry 'zine. Quite a lot of poets want to set the way the poem 
> looks as well as sounds; and one poem needs to be in block format, but with 
> lines breaking at specific words, so I have to use the line-break ...


Hi Susie,

did you try using  to preserve whitespace (which includes line breaks)?

Cheers,

Jens

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