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Separate formatting for lines as opposed to paragraphs
I have another question regarding something I don't think Word can do.
When writing poems, one needs to distinguish lines from stanzas. Currently, I use line breaks for each line and paragraph breaks at the end of each stanza. This allows me A) to have line numbering work proberly and B) to control the spacing between stanzas and C) to keep stanzas together on a page. The problem comes with long lines. (I am using columns.) If a line is too long to fit in the column it will wrap like text from a prose paragraph. In printed books of poetry in columns, a wrapping line usually indents the wrapping portion of the line to distinguish it from a new line of poetry. I know how to make a paragraph indent after the first line, but I need to be able to have lines indent when wrapping. If I set indentation for the paragraph, all the lines after the first indent in the stanza and not just the ones wrapping due to length. Moreover, a long line messes up line numbering. Example: What I want: Blah blah blah blah, Blah blah blah blah blah. Blah blah blah 4 Blah blah blah. Blah blah blah Blah blah blah blah. Blah blah, 8 Blah blah blah blah. What it does: Blah blah blah blah, Blah blah blah blah blah. Blah blah blah 5 Blah blah blah. Blah blah blah Blah blah blah blah. Blah blah, 9 Blah blah blah blah. Is there a solution to this problem? |
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Separate formatting for lines as opposed to paragraphs
Most book designers dealing with poetry will try to avoid breaking
lines if at all possible, so perhaps columns isn't the ideal way of setting your poetry. A way to deal with this problem is to have more than one paragraph style -- use an auxiliary paragraph style for the long line and the paragraph above it, provided with hanging indent and Space After of zero. The result will be indistinguishable by the reader from using all line breaks. The automatic line numbering, though, will follow the number of lines Word makes, rather than the number of line-breaks or paragraph-breaks that you type (otherwise, it wouldn't work in ordinary prose!). On Aug 25, 10:31*am, Lhynard wrote: I have another question regarding something I don't think Word can do. When writing poems, one needs to distinguish lines from stanzas. Currently, I use line breaks for each line and paragraph breaks at the end of each stanza. This allows me A) to have line numbering work proberly and B) to control the spacing between stanzas and C) to keep stanzas together on a page. The problem comes with long lines. (I am using columns.) If a line is too long to fit in the column it will wrap like text from a prose paragraph. In printed books of poetry in columns, a wrapping line usually indents the wrapping portion of the line to distinguish it from a new line of poetry. I know how to make a paragraph indent after the first line, but I need to be able to have lines indent when wrapping. If I set indentation for the paragraph, all the lines after the first indent in the stanza and not just the ones wrapping due to length. Moreover, a long line messes up line numbering. Example: What I want: * Blah blah blah blah, * Blah blah blah blah * * * blah. * Blah blah blah 4 Blah blah blah. * Blah blah blah * Blah blah blah blah. * Blah blah, 8 Blah blah blah blah. What it does: * Blah blah blah blah, * * * Blah blah blah blah * * * blah. * * * Blah blah blah 5 * *Blah blah blah. * Blah blah blah * * * Blah blah blah blah. * * * Blah blah, 9 * *Blah blah blah blah. Is there a solution to this problem? |
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Separate formatting for lines as opposed to paragraphs
In cases such as this, I don't use a hanging indent; I insert a line break
as needed and then use a tab character at the beginning of the runover line. But that's not going to help with the line numbering, I'm afraid, and I don't see *any* solution for that other than to make the margin width long enough to accommodate the longest line (not always an option). -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Lhynard" wrote in message ... I have another question regarding something I don't think Word can do. When writing poems, one needs to distinguish lines from stanzas. Currently, I use line breaks for each line and paragraph breaks at the end of each stanza. This allows me A) to have line numbering work proberly and B) to control the spacing between stanzas and C) to keep stanzas together on a page. The problem comes with long lines. (I am using columns.) If a line is too long to fit in the column it will wrap like text from a prose paragraph. In printed books of poetry in columns, a wrapping line usually indents the wrapping portion of the line to distinguish it from a new line of poetry. I know how to make a paragraph indent after the first line, but I need to be able to have lines indent when wrapping. If I set indentation for the paragraph, all the lines after the first indent in the stanza and not just the ones wrapping due to length. Moreover, a long line messes up line numbering. Example: What I want: Blah blah blah blah, Blah blah blah blah blah. Blah blah blah 4 Blah blah blah. Blah blah blah Blah blah blah blah. Blah blah, 8 Blah blah blah blah. What it does: Blah blah blah blah, Blah blah blah blah blah. Blah blah blah 5 Blah blah blah. Blah blah blah Blah blah blah blah. Blah blah, 9 Blah blah blah blah. Is there a solution to this problem? |
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