From: Erik Hetzner <egh@OCF.Berkeley.EDU>
Cc: John Culleton <john@wexfordpress.com>
Subject: Re: Centering lines of poetry.
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 10:35:35 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ptgqqys8.wl@ocf.berkeley.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200310211253.31394.john@wexfordpress.com>
At Tue, 21 Oct 2003 12:53:31 -0400,
John Culleton wrote:
>
> Here is a deceptively simple requirement:
> An author writes poetry where lines are ended by a carriage retrun
> and stanzas are ended by a blank line.
>
> Problem: How to enclose those lines somehow so that all lines are
> centered yet font changes are allowed.
>
> Of course \centerline{} works but this requires tagging each line.
>
> Any thoughts, anyone?
This worked for me:
\startalignment[middle]
\setuplines[indenting=no]
\startlines
{\it Out of his mouth a red, red rose!
Out of his heart a white!
For who can say by what strange way
Christ brings his will to light,
Since the barren staff the pilgrim bore
Bloomed in the great Pope's sight.}
\stoplines
\stopalignment
Regards,
Erik Hetzner
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2003-10-21 16:53 John Culleton
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