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Indeed, one thing I learned from Cindy's and my experience, in additon that putting "enter" at the end of a line of poetry tells the Bookshare computer not only to start a new line but also to double-space the line.
But I also learned how important it is to go Web or Net surfing as there are many sites on the internet where the works of poetry by an individual poet are frequently available - complete works or collections- with correctly formatted poems and prose. While I learned a great deal working o the Kipling, next time I while surf before I scan.
One last word on another aspect of this subject. For many reasons, none of which have to do with an author's preferences or the meaning of his/her work, publishers change editions or the way works are presented. Faulkner wrote what his readers call the "Snopes Trilogy" over a period of time while working on other books. The books are interrelated but not interdependent nor are they one book/story as The Lord of the Rings was. But, for reason's beyond my comprehension unless they were trying to make more money and force people to buy all three books, the 3 books [The Hamlet, The Town, and The Mansion] that later became known as The Snopes Trilogy, are no longer being published individually in hard back Modern Library editions but in a single volume with continuous pagination. I cannot ask Faulkner his intentions, nor could an answer from his daughter suffice, but I really think that it is counterproductive and confusing at best to try to treat those books as one. I suspect there will be numerous doctoral theses on the subject.
Amy
omsm
--
It if be now, 'tis not to come,
If it be not to come, it will be now,
If it be now now, Yet it will come.
The readiness is all.
Wm. Shakespeare
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Amy and I join you in disappointment. When I first validated some Chinese and
other poetry I didn't know that tabs were deleted. Then, last year, I tried
resetting margins, but from what Amy said when she downloaded the Complete Works
of Rudyard Kipling, that didn't work either. I think that by hitting return at
the end of lines, one can retain the "sound" of the poems, but one cannot, it
seems, retain the shape that the poets want. I didn't know at that time that
skipped lines get closed and that one should use asterisks, so verses disappear
as verses and choruses and, in the case of the Kipling, some dramatization
> dialogue must be crowded together, too. big sigh
>
> Cindy
>
>
> --- On Thu, 8/7/08, james.homme@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> > From: james.homme@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: my disappointment
> > To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Date: Thursday, August 7, 2008, 4:02 AM
> > Hi,
> > I am most disappointed that when someone submits poetry, no
> > matter how good
> > of a job they do to get it correct, the software mangles
> > it. Formatting is
> > important with poetry. That's why I read poetry from
> > Web braille. And I'm
> > sad that we have so many mangled poetry books on Bookshare.
> >
> > Jim
> >
> > James D Homme, Usability Engineering, Highmark Inc.,
> > james.homme@xxxxxxxxxxxx, 412-544-1810
> >
> > "The difference between those who get what they wish
> > for and those who
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> > success,regardless of the results." -- Jerrold Mundis
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