[bksvol-discuss] Re: Formatting Poetry
- From: Mayrie ReNae <mrenae@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 09:50:07 -0700
Hi Jim,
The stripper will remove all extra lines and spaces. If
lines are indented, you can put dashes before the line to make the
number of spaces indented not be taken up by the stripper. Some
folks put an asterisk in place of blank lines so that folks reading
can know where stanzas start. None of these things, of course, are
rules, just things that I and others do. If you employ techniques
like these, you'll need to include a scanner's/validator's note
telling the reader what you've done and why. Each line of poetry
needs to have a hard return at the end, or the stripper will run as
many together as it can until the next paragraph mark, creating
seriously long lines of poetry.
Sorry, that wasn't my most eloquent ever response. Hope it helps some.
Mayrie
At 06:55 AM 5/20/2008, you wrote:
Hi,
I know this has been brought up here before, and I forget what the answer
was, so please forgive me. I downloaded some Robert Frost poetry to read
and found that there was no break at all between stanzas, so knowing that
formatting would be a chore at best, I have steered away from validating
poetry books. What does the stripper mess up about poetry and is there any
way I can help it avoid doing that?
Thanks.
Jim
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