[bksvol-discuss] Re: Question about poetry lines
- From: Debby Franson <the.bee@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2010 16:00:22 -0500
Hi Kathy!
You are doing fine with that nursery rhyme book. The formatting sounds right.
I have never proofread poetry, but I have scanned a few poetry books that
had some prose, so I scanned it all as poetry to protect the formatting of
that, and the little bit of prose there was, I formatted in paragraphs as
prose should be.
In one book, there was just an introduction that was prose and the rest
were haiku.
In another one, the pages that had poetry also had a scripture verse at the
top, then the poem, then a prayer, since it was a daily devotional, so I
formatted the scripture as prose unless it was a few verses from a psalm
that needed to be left as poetry and always formatted the prayer as prose.
The third poetry book has free verse, so there were many lines that were
extremely short. It's especially important to format poetry correctly so
that it reads well, especially for a sighted reader, which I am not.
Also, place an asterisk between stanzas if there is more than one and three
asterisks between each poem to protect white space, or the tool will run
them all together, I think..
I am not sure why the paragraph marks look bad, but maybe the lines are too
short. I am almost done proofing a book that was all prose that was
scanned so that there were line breaks that needed removing. I found a
tool that did a great job on the line break removal, which saved the day,
because I messed up on a test copy of the book that I could try various
things on to see what worked. This tool I found is a shareware word
processor called PolyEdit. It has a feature that changes lines to
paragraphs. I have recommended it on the list before.
You can get it if you ever want to try it at:
www.polyedit.com
No, I don't work for the company, (smile)!
Debby
At 08:23 PM 6/9/2010, Kathy Hester wrote
I am doing a book which has some nursery rhymes and some other verse. The
prose in the book is written in normal lines--but the "poetry" has a new
line for each line, which, of course, will mean it has a paragraph
mark. This looks totally reasonable to me--it seems to me that each line
should be on a separate line, but I think I have read on the list at some
time that the paragraph symbol for each line is objectionable. I don't
really understand why the paragraph marks are objectionable if it isn't
prose, but if they are, what should I do to make the line divisions apparent?
Thank you.
Kathy
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> the LORD make His face shine upon you
> and be gracious to you;
> the LORD turn His face toward you
> and give you peace."
> Numbers 6:24-26
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