[bksvol-discuss] Re: Question about poetry lines
- From: "Mayrie ReNae" <mayrierenae@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2010 18:30:27 -0700
Hi Kathy,
Oh, you're correct. Guess we weren't clear. Only in prose are paragraph
marks at the ends of lines that don't end paragraphs objectionable. In
poetry, they're essential! Please, continue as you have been doing and
leave the paragraph marks at the end of each line of poetry in the file.
Thanks for taking on poetry. It's a lot of work sometimes.
If you have stanzas of poetry, please put an asterisk on the blank line
between stanzas so that readers will know that a stanza ended, or that white
space appeared in the text.
Happy proofreading!
Mayrie
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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Question about poetry lines
I am doing a book which has some nursery rhymes and some other verse. The
prose in the book is written in normal lines--but the "poetry" has a new
line for each line, which, of course, will mean it has a paragraph mark.
This looks totally reasonable to me--it seems to me that each line should be
on a separate line, but I think I have read on the list at some time that
the paragraph symbol for each line is objectionable. I don't really
understand why the paragraph marks are objectionable if it isn't prose, but
if they are, what should I do to make the line divisions apparent?
Thank you.
Kathy
> "The LORD bless you and keep you;
> the LORD make His face shine upon you
> and be gracious to you;
> the LORD turn His face toward you
> and give you peace."
> Numbers 6:24-26
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