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Originally Posted by AlexBell
Thanks again for the suggestions. But my main concern is still to have lines of poetry break in a standard way if they are too long for the ereader screen. And most poetry written in the days of print books does not fit on a 6" reader screen without the lines breaking.
Most of the epigraphs in George Eliot's books are poetry, and most of her books have epigraphs. So I have decided to give up trying to make the epigraphs in the ebooks identical to the corresponding epigraph in the print book, and have decided to just lay them out as verses.
That may be naughty of me since the result is not identical in layout to the original. But the result is not going to be identical to the original anyway, since many of the lines of poetry cannot be fitted on to a 6" reader without breaking.
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Hi:
I'm not going to lie--I stayed out of this discussion because I wasn't clear on what you were really trying to do; initially, it seemed that you wanted lines to NOT break at all, on larger eReaders (although how you'd do that in a world of fonts that can be resized, I don't know), but break on smaller--but now you're saying that you wanted the lines to break
"in a standard way." What does that mean?
I mean...you can't control whether someone sees it at a small or tiny font size, or large or huge. How can you make lines break "in a standard way" across devices? When you say that, do you mean in the same place, in the line, or....? Honestly, this confuses me.
At the point you're at, if I understand you, which I'm not sure I do, I'd just use fixed-layout, which of course, is a dreadful idea, typically--but with the sort of control that it sounds like you're trying to exert, I don't see an alternative.
Know what I mean?
Hitch