[NTG-context] Re: \par and \startlines

[Henning Hraban Ramm <texml@fiee.net>]

Am 01.05.24 um 09:44 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster:
>> but that should be sufficient, but to repeat Hraban's question: What 
>> would be the advantage of using the format module?
> 
> The module provides features like
> 
>      - alignment of the verse lines
>      - numbering of the lines (which isn't supported by \startlines 
> unless you add the normal linenumbering mechanism)
>      - support for lines which don't fit on a single page where the 
> consecutive lines are indented
> 
> but the module is outdated and relies on an old mkii style code base.
> 
> A big difference between the \startlines environment and the format 
> module is that the first treats
> each line in the input file as a separate line in the output while the 
> format module requires begin/end
> tags for each line which works better for xml input.

Thank you! Doesn’t sound like I should use it…

Hraban

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