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Originally Posted by Hitch
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?
Hitch
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Thanks for your response, and please accept my apologies for not being clear. What I meant was to have each line of the poem break at the right edge of the screen if it is too long for the width of the screen, and to continue with a 2em indent on the screen line below. The 2em indent of course is to show that the words are continuations of the line above, and not a new line of the poem.
It's quite easy to do with most poetry, even when a given line of poetry is itself indented a space or two. But I found it impossible to do on a six inch screen when the whole 'verse' is indented and preceded by a character name as on the epigraph I attached. It might have worked on an iPad screen, but I wanted it to work on a 6" reader and a Samsung tablet as well.