Yeah, that seems like a good way to go. Now I finally understand what
Wolfgang was saying last night :)

Since whitespace wasn't important to this particular poem, it did not matter
(using \par worked fine). But I will update my blog with this for sure, as
in the case of whitespace-sensitive poetry its a much better solution.

In general though, it is completely unnecessary, as poetry generally has no
need to be defined in macros. But it's the edge cases, where I live :)

On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 10:47 PM, Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu> wrote:

> On Thu, 16 Sep 2010, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
>
>
>> Am 16.09.2010 um 00:38 schrieb Aditya Mahajan:
>>
>>  However, \startlines..\stoplines is not available when defining a macro.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>> What do you mean by that these macros are not available?
>>>
>>> Doesn't the following work? (untested, but I will be really surprised if
>>> it doesn't work)
>>>
>>> \def\startpoety
>>>  {\startlines
>>>  % All the remaining setup
>>>  }
>>>
>>> \def\stoppoety
>>> {%whatever setup you want
>>>  \stoplines}
>>>
>>
>> He use
>>
>> \def\poetry
>>  {\startlines
>>  line 1
>>  line 2
>>  ...
>>  \stoplines}
>>
>> and this doesn't work.
>>
>
> Oh. In that case, I will do
>
> \startbuffer[poerty]
> line 1
> line
> \stopbuffer
>
> \def\poetry
>  {\startlines
>   \getbuffer[poetry]
>   \stoplines}
>
> or even
>
> \def\getpoerty#1[#2]%
>  {\startlines
>   \getbuffer[#2]
>   \stoplines}
>
> That should work (again untested).
>
>
> Aditya
>
>
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