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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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