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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