formatting poetry,

[Kazoo]

formatting poetry,

I am about halfway done converting an public domain etext to html for
myself and others who may be intereted in such a thing.

I want to use the best markup form possible and I think that the <br>'s
in formatted poetry are unavoidable, but periodically I have to indent as
well. Is it good form to use nbsp;'s to indent ? I am trying to avoid
<style>, though if that is the best way of doing it, i'd be glad to.

 

[m]

formatting poetry,

I am about halfway done converting an public domain etext to html for
myself and others who may be intereted in such a thing.

I want to use the best markup form possible and I think that the <br>'s
in formatted poetry are unavoidable, but periodically I have to indent as
well. Is it good form to use nbsp;'s to indent ? I am trying to avoid
<style>, though if that is the best way of doing it, i'd be glad to.

Investigate <pre>.
(It's also a good way to present
source code for programs on a webpage.)

 

[PeterMcC]

Kazoo wrote in

formatting poetry,

I am about halfway done converting an public domain etext to html for
myself and others who may be intereted in such a thing.

I want to use the best markup form possible and I think that the
<br>'s in formatted poetry are unavoidable, but periodically I have
to indent as well. Is it good form to use nbsp;'s to indent ? I am
trying to avoid <style>, though if that is the best way of doing it,
i'd be glad to.

Sorry, CSS *is* the way to go - and, if you give it a try, I'm sure that
you'll find it much the best route both in terms of ease and results.

 

[Toby A Inkster]

I want to use the best markup form possible and I think that the <br>'s
in formatted poetry are unavoidable, but periodically I have to indent as
well.

They are very avoidable. Use <pre>. Don't like the font? CSS font-family.

 

[jake]

formatting poetry,

I am about halfway done converting an public domain etext to html for
myself and others who may be intereted in such a thing.

I want to use the best markup form possible and I think that the <br>'s
in formatted poetry are unavoidable, but periodically I have to indent as
well. Is it good form to use nbsp;'s to indent ? I am trying to avoid
<style>, though if that is the best way of doing it, i'd be glad to.

One thing that you may want to consider when preparing poetry is that
quite often the poem is presented visually without any punctuation,
presumably on the basis that the reader can determine the appropriate
pauses from construct and the positioning of line breaks.

This can present problems for users who will be listening to the poem
through assistive technology devices (talking browser, screen-reader,
text-to-Braille, etc.).

Without punctuation, the words will tend to run into one another without
pause.

So, if the poem contains no punctuation for its visual presentation,
consider providing an alternative 'accessible' version.

regards.

 

[Eric B. Bednarz]

formatting poetry,
[...]

I want to use the best markup form possible and I think that the <br>'s
in formatted poetry are unavoidable, [...]

BR says 'do something here', not 'this is a line'.
If you are really just looking for *formatting* of poetry that or PRE
might be OK. HTML as descriptive markup is merely a bad joke anyway.

If you take it more serious, look e.g. at the example at

<http://www.isgmlug.org/sgmlhelp/g-sg13.htm#SG132>

In HTML, the best you can do is to reproduce such a strucure with DIV
markup and recycle the used element type names as class names (to
suggest presentational fine tuning, for example), except for the title
that could be marked up with an appropriate heading.

 

[Kazoo]

On Mon, 05 Jul 2004 20:59:40 +0000, Kazoo wrote:


thanks, one and all.

pre it is, style tag and embedded css to add
some beef to the font.

 

[Webcastmaker]

I want to use the best markup form possible and I think that the <br>'s
in formatted poetry are unavoidable, but periodically I have to indent as
well. Is it good form to use nbsp;'s to indent ? I am trying to avoid
<style>, though if that is the best way of doing it, i'd be glad to.

Don't avoid it. But you don't need it. Create a class that is
indented and just use that when it is needed. CSS is your friend.

 

[Sid Ismail]

: formatting poetry,
:
: I am about halfway done converting an public domain etext to html for
: myself and others who may be intereted in such a thing.
:
: I want to use the best markup form possible and I think that the <br>'s
: in formatted poetry are unavoidable, but periodically I have to indent as
: well. Is it good form to use nbsp;'s to indent ? I am trying to avoid
: <style>, though if that is the best way of doing it, i'd be glad to.


Maybe <blockquote> then PRE? URL?

Sid

 

[Reid]

On Mon, 05 Jul 2004 20:59:40 +0000, Kazoo wrote:


thanks, one and all.

pre it is, style tag and embedded css to add
some beef to the font.

Interestingly, the WWWC used poetry as its example for a use of PRE.
<http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/text.html#h-9.3.4>