Quote:
Originally Posted by kovidgoyal
@Jellby: The correct way to do poetry in XHTML would be
Code:
<div class="poem">
<div class="stanza">
<div class="line">
...
</div>
.
.
.
</div>
.
.
.
</div>
|
---
Or...
Code:
<div class="verse">
<div class="stanza">
<div class="line">
...
</div>
.
.
.
</div>
.
.
.
</div>
... since "verse" is preferred by LaTeX (and presumably other systems also) as more generic than poem.
---
or...
Code:
<div class="poem">
<div class="line">
...
</div>
.
.
.
</div>
If you have only one a single poem that does not have multiple stanzas.
---
Or...
Code:
<div class="quote">
<div class="line">
...
</div>
.
.
.
</div>
If you are quoting just a few excerpted lines from a particular poems certain stanza.
I write this post to further illustrate my point in the preceding post, without meaning to disagree with your suggestion, Kovid.
- Ahi