poetry \startlines and tab

poetry \startlines and tab

[Youssef Cherem via ntg-context]

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Hello,

I needed to typeset some poetry and noticed that

\startlines[space=on]

Some line with tab % doesn't work, no spaces added

Some line with spaces %work

\stoplines


Is there a way to make the "tab" render the space "as is"?

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Re: poetry \startlines and tab

[Hans Hagen via ntg-context]

On 1/11/2022 3:01 AM, Youssef Cherem via ntg-context wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I needed to typeset some poetry and noticed that
> 
> \startlines[space=on]
> 
> Some line with tab % doesn't work, no spaces added
> 
> Some line with spaces %work
> 
> \stoplines
> 
> 
> Is there a way to make the "tab" render the space "as is"?
one can make the tab 'active' and have a meaning of say 2em but that's 
normally not what one does in tex ... btw, there are options for doing 
lines with odd/even indentation schemes

a tab at the start of a line (when it can be recognized as such) could 
work but in the middle ... doable but still somewhat hackery because it 
involves position tracking

Hans

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Re: poetry \startlines and tab

[jbf via ntg-context]

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For poetry that has non-regular indentations, I simply 
\definelines[poem] and set that up the way I want, obviously, with 
\setuplines[poem]  e.g. [before={\blank 
\setupinterlinespace[line=2.5ex]},after={\blank},indenting=first].

And then, but I guess it is still a hack, I use \hskip at a suitable 
dimension whenever I need indented lines:

\startpoem
This is line one,
\hskip1em{This is line two}
This is line three,
\hskip1em{This is line four,}
\hskip1em{This is line five.}

\rightaligned{Poet's name}
\stoppoem

Julian

On 11/1/22 1:01 pm, Youssef Cherem via ntg-context wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I needed to typeset some poetry and noticed that
>
> \startlines[space=on]
>
> Some line with tab % doesn't work, no spaces added
>
> Some line with spaces %work
>
> \stoplines
>
> Is there a way to make the "tab" render the space "as is"?
>
>
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Re: poetry \startlines and tab

[Hans Hagen via ntg-context]

On 1/12/2022 1:09 AM, jbf via ntg-context wrote:
> For poetry that has non-regular indentations, I simply 
> \definelines[poem] and set that up the way I want, obviously, with 
> \setuplines[poem]  e.g. [before={\blank 
> \setupinterlinespace[line=2.5ex]},after={\blank},indenting=first].
> 
> And then, but I guess it is still a hack, I use \hskip at a suitable 
> dimension whenever I need indented lines:
> 
> \startpoem
> This is line one,
> \hskip1em{This is line two}
> This is line three,
> \hskip1em{This is line four,}
> \hskip1em{This is line five.}
> 
> \rightaligned{Poet's name}
> \stoppoem
\quad

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