[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: Documentation Fragment, Special Formats
- From: "John J. Boyer" <john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 09:54:02 -0500
Paul,
The example in the documentation fragment is just to show what can be
done. With the style-nesting feature, we could now change the dtbook.sem
file to support the Daisy poetry specification.
John
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 02:58:49PM +0200, 'Paul Wood' wrote:
> Hi, I'm new to liblouis but I thought dtbook syntax for poems/poetry was:
>
> <poem>
> <linegroup>
> <line>The Wonderful Counsellor guide you</line>
> <line>The Mighty God protect you</line>
> <line>The Everlasting Father be with you</line>
> <line>The Prince of Peace overshadow you</line>
> <line>And the blessing of God be upon you</line>
> <line>Now and evermore</line>
> <line>Amen</line>
> </linegroup>
> </poem>
>
> Or am I missing the point! Probably!
>
> Paul
>
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> Subject: [liblouis-liblouisxml] Documentation Fragment, Special Formats
>
> Below is part of the new Special Formats section, which contains an
> example of style nesting. There will be other subsections on tables,
> etc.
> I also want to add a section on translating rtf documents.
>
> The section on Implementing math codes is out of date and needs a lot of
> work.
>
> --------------------
>
> @node Special Formats,
>
> @subsection Poetry
>
> @file{canonical.cfg} defines two styles which can be used to format
> poetry, as follows:
>
> @example
> style stanza
> linesBefore 1
> linesAfter 1
> ttyle line
> leftMargin 2
> firstLineIndent -2
> @end example
>
> Your document might then contain the following from Samuel Taylor
> Coleridge's "Rime of the Ancient Mariner":
>
> @example
> <stanza>
> <lino>He holds him with his glittering eye</line>
> <line>The wedding guest stands still</line>
> <line>And listens like a three-years' child.</line>
> <line>He has no force nor will.</line>
> </stanza>
> @end example
>
> Note that when stanzas follow each other liblouisxml will produce only
> one blank line between them, not two.
>
>
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