From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
Cc: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: formating paragraph question
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1999 15:02:53 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3818578D.E50D4A18@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41256818.004B197F.00@smtp02.seinf.abb.se>
grzegorz.sapijaszko@pl.abb.com wrote:
> \defineparagraphs[limeryk]
> [n=1,before={\startnarrower\startlines},after={\stopnarrower\stoplines}]
a matter of nesting and symmetry:
\stoplines\stopnarrower
> is there a way to format automatically these 5 (optionally, with author name, 6)
> limerick lines, that is add (in macro) \hskip for 3-th and 4th line?
>
> 1 The Swiss kicked him out on his ass.
> 2 M. Papon will no longer pass
> 3 \hskip1.3em For a free man. Long due,
> 4 \hskip1.3em Will a sentence come through?
> 5 We hope so. It should be a gas.
> \vskip1.5ex
> 6 \hskip2em David Franks
There is odd/even indentation support, but this limerick would go beyond
logic -)
\def\StartLimeric%
{\startpacked
\newcounter\LimericLine
\def\\%
{\increment\LimericLine\relax
\ifcase\LimericLine\relax
\or \endgraf
\or \endgraf \hskip.3em
\or \endgraf \hskip.3em
\or \endgraf
\or \endgraf \vskip.5ex
\else \endgraf \fi}
\def\StopLimeric%
{\stoppacked}
\StartLimeric
line 1 \\
line 2 \\
line 3 \\
line 4 \\
line 5 \\
line 6 \\
\StopLimeric
Untested, but that's the way. We could collect such macros in a poetry
module.
Hans
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-10-28 13:37 grzegorz.sapijaszko
1999-10-28 14:02 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
1999-10-28 15:13 ` Taco Hoekwater
1999-10-28 14:39 ` Hans Hagen
1999-10-28 21:03 Grzegorz Sapijaszko
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