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Originally Posted by Turtle91
Gah!! I hate it when I get curious about something... I can't let it go!  |
Omigod, you have more enthusiasm for this than I do! Ha ha, seriously, I posted this query here on this forum not because this is a project that I "have" to do, but more to see if there was any point in thinking about bothering to muster up interest in it for myself to do at all. I didn't think that others would start spending half their day on trying to come up with a solution for me -- if anything, since we're talking about Shakespeare plays, I thought that surely this issue must have been pondered over (if not resolved) before.
Anyway, thanks SO much for your time and effort on this, Turtle! I can't help but wonder, though, if it's "overkill" to do it your way. I'm thinking back to that comment you made in your first reply here...
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Originally Posted by Turtle91
As far as the spacing for those lines - yes, you COULD use nbsp, but you really can't control the size of the reader's display...those spaces could cause the words to flow to the next line anyway. This is a long standing problem with things like plays and poetry.
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The issue of doing it the "simple" way, just adding in non-breaking spaces, could certainly cause an issue of lines wrapping -- BUT, so could any of the other text-filled lines, too! Shakespeare would read best if things were such that each single line of "poetic prose" stayed as a single line and didn't wrap to the next line, and I might think that if the lines did do so, then the reader would likely either reduce their font size (until it didn't), or else just go in landscape mode.
Don't you think so? In that regard, isn't the non-breaking space method really just not only the easiest, but also most practical way of doing things? Although I haven't actually tried it yet, I would think that chances are that if I got the spacing looking okay in Sigil, then that would probably turn out okay on whatever the end device is, too.
And if it wraps, well, it wraps -- but if it's wrapping, then I can only imagine that lines are wrapping all over the place where they're not supposed to be wrapping.