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Old 03-19-2008, 05:34 PM   #1
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Poetry formatting

I recently finished posting "Forest Runes" by George W. Sears to my home page www.zianet.com/jgray/. It is the other book by the author. As some of you know, I had previously posted "Woodcraft".

Now, to my question. When I converted the poems in "Forest Runes" to HTML, I matched the formatting of the original text as closely as I could. In most cases, the indentation of various lines in the poems is deliberate, and so I retained them. However, in some cases, a line of a poem was broken to fit the page margins and the rest of the line is indented on the next line. I have duplicated this on the web version, but am thinking about re-doing these lines without the breaks.

The reason I am posting here is to get various opinions and reasons as to whether I should or should not stay faithful to the printed version. I am only thinking about fixing the lines that were broken to fit the margins, not any other lines that were indented for poetic reasons. Attached is one example poem. The PDF is the original page and the GIF is a screenshot of the web version as it is now.
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