horizontal alignment

[Michael Goerz <goerz@physik.fu-berlin.de>]

Hi everyone,

I'm trying to do some horizontal alignment, for typesetting poetry.
There are lines that are continuations of the previous line, and should
be aligned to the end of that previous line. Currently, I'm doing this
by using \phantom text, which for some reason I also have to wrap into
an \mbox to avoid a line break. As an example:

    \startlines
    here we now see you ~~  already in grief
    as you see ~~  yourselves ~~  as the last of the lasts
    we are mirrors of your consciousness
    \mbox{\phantom{we are mirrors of your consciousness} as you see the end}
    and you see us ~~ deep in the spring of the universe
    seeing you deep ~~ in the gravity well of the heat death
    we are dying ~~ in the spring as we watch you die
    we are grieving in the spring as you begin to grieve for all
    we are talking about bone-dry at the bottom of the well of time
    we are already parched
    \mbox{\phantom{we are already parched} for time is transparent}
    and we are all rats in the glassy
    \mbox{\phantom{and we are all rats in the glassy} labyrinth of time.
    \stoplines

How would you solve this kind of problem? I've considered defining a
macro \BrokenLine[line1][line2] that does the above. But, there are
also instances where there are two or more lines as a continuation of
one previous line. Maybe there is a possibility to mark a horizontal
position temporarily, and then jump to that position later?

Thanks,
Michael
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