visual poems

[e_dog]

sorry, methinks i may have asked this befor, but how do you retain the line indentations in the format of a poem as presented on the discussion boards.

[Doreen Peri]

Hey e-dog.... Lemme see if I can help.

<pre>this is not a real poem
it is not a poem at all
it is only an experiment in formatting
text to be posted on the internet
superhighway at studio eight,
my favorite website... lol</pre>

OK... it worked.

I used the "pre" tag, meaning "preformatted." It's an html tag. Why it changed the font from arial to times, I have no clue, but the indentations I made in my original document are there. I only used a text document. Maybe if you use a Word document, it will retain the formatting of the font. Hold on... I'll try that.

OK, I created a Word document, selected Arial for the type, and formatted the same text as above, then added the "pre" tags to the beginning and end. Let's see if it works -

<pre>this is not a real poem
it is not a poem at all
it is only an experiment in formatting
text to be posted on the internet
superhighway at studio eight,
my favorite website... lol</pre>

Nope. The font still converted to a serifed font... looks like Times New Roman.

Anyway, at least the indentations are retained.

Format your indentations in a separate document, then put < pre > before the text and < /pre > after the text .... without the spaces.

[Doreen Peri]

footnote - unfortunately, I didn't originally double-space the text but that's how it posted when using the preformat tags. Hmm.... I don't know why. But indentations are retained by using the "pre" tags, anyway. Hope this helped.

[jimboloco]

<pre>well here goes
up in arms
nobody knows
farms with his toes
up to his nose in
horses and bellringers!</pre>

[mtmynd]

<pre>thx doreen
you taught me something
new
to wordplay with
yay</pre>