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Charleski has it exactly right. A hanging indent (also called an outdent or undent) is the proper way to do it, unless of course ghostyjack really does want to right align the overlapping lines, which seems to me a whole different thing. Using the CSS poetry snippet above will indent the wrapped lines and reflow them no matter what the reader or font size. The only extra I might add would be "!important" to force the reader/browser/app to recognize the hanging indent. By the way, that Publishers Weekly example of a mangled "Howl" seems all too typical of ebooks right now. I've come across some very nicely formatted ones, but get the impression that a lot of ebooks of print editions are nothing more than document dumps done by people who don't have a clue and don't care. Apparently this thoughtless 1200-page edition of Ginsberg is a prime example.
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