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HarryT · 05-04-2010, 11:22 AM

You generally want a page margin to be a fixed width. In your case, 5% of the page.

When you indent one line of poetry relative to another line, you want the amount of indentation to scale with the text:

eg:

Code:

Line 1
  Line 2
Line 3
  Line 4

You'd want the "extra" indentation of lines 2 and 4, relative to lines 1 and 3, to be proportional to the font size. Of course, you might want the entire poem to be indented relative to the surrounding text, and a fixed offset would be fine for that.

05-04-2010, 11:22 AM	#21
HarryT eBook Enthusiast Posts: 85,557 Karma: 93980341 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: UK Device: Kindle Oasis 2, iPad Pro 10.5", iPhone 6	You generally want a page margin to be a fixed width. In your case, 5% of the page. When you indent one line of poetry relative to another line, you want the amount of indentation to scale with the text: eg: Code: Line 1 Line 2 Line 3 Line 4 You'd want the "extra" indentation of lines 2 and 4, relative to lines 1 and 3, to be proportional to the font size. Of course, you might want the entire poem to be indented relative to the surrounding text, and a fixed offset would be fine for that.