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Originally Posted by HarryT
You would lose a lot if you didn't indent split lines. Remember that this is poetry, not prose. You really do need to show that you're continuing a line, not beginning a new one.
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Thanks, Harry, I'm glad I'm not the only one that feels that way!
I'm still thinking that the nbsp way that I first suggested would be the best way to go -- no offense to Turtle for all his efforts, I do genuinely appreciate that, and those were some intriguing ideas, too.
Perusing some of the other Shakespeare plays, from what I've seen it would appear that none of the creators of them have made any effort to do that, i.e. "indent split lines" (as you accurately described it better than I did). I'm surprised about that, that nobody else ever bothered to at least do even a lousy job of it -- ha ha.
This reminds me of the multi-volume series of the writings of Henry David Thoreau that I did, which I initially began just to do his
Walden, because there didn't seem to be a single nicely-formatted free version of that book available anywhere. In that book, there's quite a few tables, and it was shocking to see that nobody had ever bothered to get those looking nicely -- in every single other free version out there, they're an utter, complete disaster, virtually incomprehensible.
I guess that's somewhat similar to what I'd like to do with one, maybe three, Shakespeare plays -- just do a
nice edition of them, one that's
worthy of a writer of his stature, something that's enjoyable to read for the typography of it, and not only the beauty of its words.
