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Old 01-07-2012, 02:38 AM   #2
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Originally Posted by Adele Ward View Post
I'm converting poetry for Kindle and will want to do it for Epub too. The problem is when lines are too long and roll over on to a second line. I need the line to indent slightly if it rolls over onto a second line, but the default is for lines to indent after a line break and then left justify if the line rolls over. This works well for prose for new paragraphs, but with poetry the opposite needs to happen. Could somebody tell me how to make lines of poetry all left justify, but indent slightly if a line is too long and rolls over, or if the reader increases the font size and makes lines roll over?
I've no idea how to do this, I'm afraid, but will be following this thread to see if someone else knows.

All I do is to left justify the text, set the indent to zero, and let it break where it breaks. The authors I work for have accepted that, but they don't know any better.
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