RE: Gutenberg (Poetry: Preserving White Space)

I can give a sample as I am currently faced with this issue.

In trying to markup Idylls of the King by Tennyson I am faced with the
following types of breaks between verses:

-------
'Let Lancelot know, my King, let Lancelot know,
Thy noblest and thy truest!'

                            And the King--
'But wherefore would ye men should wonder at you?
Nay, rather for the sake of me, their King,
And the deed's sake my knighthood do the deed,
Than to be noised of.'
-------

Since the end of the verse fell midway (Thy noblest and thy truest!'), the
first line picks up (And the King--) with essentially 2 line feeds and no
carriage return. Obviously the XML is rendered with no white space, since it
is ignored.

Also, should the Guttenberg '--' be replaced with em dashes?


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-hwg-gutenberg(at)hwg.org [mailto:owner-hwg-gutenberg(at)hwg.org]On
> Behalf Of R. Ivan Linderman
> Sent: Sunday, February 06, 2000 8:48 PM
> To: hwg-gutenberg(at)hwg.org
> Subject: HWG: Gutenberg (Poetry: Preserving White Space)
>
>
> Unfortunately, I haven't a copy of either your document or the stylesheet,
> so I may not understand the problem.
>
> text-indent is supported by Netscape and Internet Explorer versions 4 and
> above, as well as by Opera, so it would seem a logical choice.
>
> If the unit of indentation is for example a paragraph, padding-left or
> margin-left are useful. Larger blocks could be contained in DIVs and the
> block indented or located (CSSP) where desired.
>
> I don't think anyone wants to step back to layout tables, single-pixel
> tricks or adding non-breaking spaces ( ).
>
> Regards,
> Ivan Linderman
>

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