[bksvol-discuss] Re: Should each line in poetry be in a separate paragraph?
- From: "John J. Boyer" <john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2010 14:38:55 -0500
Evan,
I wrote my message about spacing between stanzas before I saw Valerie's
post. I'll forward it to the person who is doing the actual
proofreading.
John
On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 03:15:43PM -0400, EVAN REESE wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> Valerie is right here, including what she writes about separating stanzas
> and poems on the same page. Unfortunately, just a blank paragraph won't do
> because Bookshare processing removes all blank lines; so you have to put
> something in the blank line to indicate that it is there in the original
> book.
>
> Evan
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Valerie Maples" <vlmaples@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, June 27, 2010 2:36 PM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Should each line in poetry be in a separate
> paragraph?
>
>
> >Good afternoon, John!
> >
> >Maybe Evan or Lissi will jump in, but as I understand it from their
> >previous suggestions, in addition to putting a paragraph mark at the end
> >of each line, we put a single asterisk between stanzas and if there is
> >more than one poem on the page, three asterisks to denote a shift to a new
> >poem.
> >
> >Without the presence of line breaks in daisy format it is the best we can
> >do to retain poetry format so that it reads correctly. It is a lot of
> >work, but it really helps out in the end. It matters a lot to people who
> >enjoy reading poetry and want to see it or hear it as it originally was
> >written.
> >
> >Thanks for taking the time to ask!
> >Valerie
> >
> >
> >On Jun 26, 2010, at 7:58 PM, Mayrie ReNae wrote:
> >
> >>Hi John,
> >>
> >>Yes, each line of poetry should end with a paragraph mark, or each line
> >>should begin with one, whichever it ends up happening when you don't
> >>separate lines with spaces. Poetry is pretty much useless if the lines
> >>are
> >>not separated by paragraph marks.
> >>
> >>Thanks for keeping true to the poetry. That matters a lot to those of us
> >>who enjoy poetry.
> >>
> >>Mayrie
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>-----Original Message-----
> >>From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >>[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of John J. Boyer
> >>Sent: Saturday, June 26, 2010 12:48 PM
> >>To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >>Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Should each line in poetry be in a separate
> >>paragraph?
> >>
> >>I am preparing a book on Writing Metrical poetry for submission. It has
> >>lots
> >>of poems. Should each line be in a separate paragraph? I am using Word
> >>2007.
> >>
> >>Thanks,
> >>John
> >>
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