Re: formating paragraph question

[Taco Hoekwater <taco.hoekwater@wkap.nl>]

>>>>> "grzegorz" == grzegorz sapijaszko <grzegorz.sapijaszko@pl.abb.com> writes:

    grzegorz> Hi,

    grzegorz> for formating a limerick I'm using the code:

    grzegorz> I was trying to define paragraph like:

    grzegorz> \defineparagraphs[limeryk]
    grzegorz> [n=1,before={\startnarrower\startlines},after={\stopnarrower\stoplines}]

You need to reverse \stopnarrower and \stoplines

\defineparagraphs[limeryk]
   [n=1,before={\startnarrower\startlines\mypars},after={\stoplines\stopnarrower}]

\newcount\mylines
\def\mypars
 {\mylines=0 
  \def\obeyedline{%
    \par 
    \ifcase\mylines \parindent 0em %1
        \or                        %2 
        \or \parindent 1.5em       %3
        \or                        %4
	    \or \parindent 0em         %5
        \or \vskip 1.5ex\parindent 2em %6
        \else                      % >6 
        \fi
    \advance\mylines1 }}%

    grzegorz> \setupparagraphs[limeryk]
    grzegorz> [style={\switchtobodyfont[ant,9pt]}]

    grzegorz> is there a way to format automatically these 5
    grzegorz> (optionally, with author name, 6) limerick lines, that
    grzegorz> is add (in macro) \hskip for 3-th and 4th line?

This is what \mypars does. Input becomes:

\startlimeryk
The Swiss kicked him out on his ass.
M. Papon will no longer pass
  For a free man. Long due,
  Will a sentence come through?
We hope so. It should be a gas.

  David Franks
\stoplimeryk

(with or without the empty lines and indentation)

Greetings, Taco

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