On Tue, 22 May 2007, Blake Haswell wrote:
> I think there are only two really appropriate ways to mark-up poetry.
> Using <pre> tags, or using paragraphs to mark-up the stanza's and the
> <br> tag to show line-breaks. Possibly using an OL to mark it up as an
> ordered list, but that's only an option if you need to have the line
> numbers written, and even then I think it's pretty messy.
Using OL or UL is quite acceptable as far as styled presentation is
considered, since you can set list-style-type: none and margin: 0 and
padding: 0. You can also set
li { margin-left: 1em;
text-indent: -1em; }
so that if a line is longer than fits into the canvas, it is wrapped but
so that the second line is indented, letting the user infer the
intended division into lines. (Similar styling can be used in the DIV
approach that I mentioned earlier.)
What's problematic in using OL or UL is the unstyled presentation.
--
Jukka "Yucca" Korpela, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/
______________________________________________________________________
css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d
IE7 information -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7
List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/
Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
