Formatting Poetry for Lit

[KillerMuffin]

I was looking over some of the new poems in the past few days and noticed that some if it has some format to it beyond the straight "paragraph" form. Indents and the like.

I know that story people like italics and whatnot, I think poetry people would like them, too. There's nothing quite like a judiciously used space or italics to create ambiance.

So, for those who aren't in the know, here's the HTML to format your poetry for Laurel (to make sure it's done right)


Spaces:

To add spaces where there otherwise would be none, you have to use the no backspace code. & nbsp, without the space between & and n. It looks like this: &nbsp <-- if you can't see it (you can't) click Quote and scroll down. That prevents the browser from automatically removing extra spaces.

Italics:

Similar to vB code, yet HTMLish all the same! <I>whatever you want italicized</I> <I> opens the italics and </I> closes it. Spacing for italics codes is just like normal spacing. Make sure there's a space in there! Don't do it like this: word<I>italicized words</I>word. Like this: word <I>italicized words</I>

Boldface:

Like italics, only with <B> and </B>

Hope it helps someone!

 

[Rybka]

HEY KM!

If I send you a poem in "Word" format. Can you make it look in posted form, on this site, just like the original? Word placement on a page is very important to me, but I am not a computer guru.


Regards, Rybka

 

[JUDO]

KM -

I've always wanted to do some creative indenting with my poetry and have seen some achieve, but I can not for the life of me figure out how to do it.

Perhaps this is a job for Weird Harold.


- Judo

 

[KillerMuffin]

Re: HEY KM!

If I send you a poem in "Word" format. Can you make it look in posted form, on this site, just like the original? Word placement on a page is very important to me, but I am not a computer guru.


Regards, Rybka

I don't think I can. I'm not sure how Laurel does her thing at her end of it. I do know that you aren't allowed to change font, you can't change fontsize, you can't add all of your own HTML code, basically, you can do italics, bold, and no-backspace.

You can center it or right margin flush it, but if you've done anything but 12 pt. verdana, then it's not going to come out.

I think Laurel said that you should add any HTML code like head, titles, and links because she just has to manually edit them out anyway. She's got .css in operation here and your own HTML would mess that up or just not come through.

Then again, I'm not terribly sure what you're looking for in formatting. I'm sorry I can't help you more.