Please find attached a (Xe)LaTeX template intended for poetry or similarly short pieces of content. This is, perhaps, not entirely practical (given that most of the PDF crew probably reads novels and non-fiction rather than contemporary poetry), but I'm hoping it will illustrate that one can fairly easily take (Xe)LaTeX from bland defaults to something distinctly more.
The template is called
ἐγκώμιον.
Due to the fragile nature of the
verse environment, in some cases the width of the environment must be explicitly specified to avoid unsightly line-breaks. For the same reason, it would probably be difficult to make large print eBooks with this template... but with some patience and fiddling it might be doable.
Note: This is a
XeLaTeX source file, so generating the PDF you need to do:
Code:
xelatex filename.tex
twice, instead of the usual:
Code:
pdflatex filename.tex
Note: If you do not have "Garamond Premier Pro", you will need to change the font used in the source file. You need to use the "official" name (spaces and all)... something everybody should have that ought to produce similar (if perhaps lesser) results is "Palatino".
- Ahi