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Converting Old English Poetry
Greetings,
I'm using BookDesigner to convert Old English poetry to LRF, or more to the point I'm having real trouble.
Each line needs to be broken into two half-lines, for example:
Welund him be wurman.....wræces cunnade,
anhydig eorl earfoþa.....dreag,
hæfde him to gesiþþe.....sorge ond longaþ,
wintercealde wræce;.....wean oft onfond,
siþþan hine Niðhad on.....nede legde,
swoncre seonobende.....on syllan monn.
þæs ofereode,.....þisses swa mæg!
where the ..... represents spaces.
So far I have not found a way to force BD to honour the spaces between the half-lines.
Non-breaking spaces ( ) just get collapsed into a single whitespace.
Using CSS (whitespace: pre) is ignored.
I suppose I could embed transparent gifs, but that's not really satisfactory.
Any suggestions?
beoð ge gesunde
John O
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