[texhax] book of poems

[Andy Farnell]

Have a look at the Memoir package, IIRC that has plenty of
support for poems, quotes and suchlike.


On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 05:52:26PM +0100, Arno Trautmann wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I want to typeset a book of poems. There is one problem I don’t have any
> clue how to solve …
> If a line of type is too wide, it must be broken. But as the lines in
> poems are fixed, it mostly is set like (monospaced font!):
> 
> This is a very short poem to show the
> And this is the next line!       [problem]
> 
> So the last word (or two, maybe), is set in the next line if that is
> short enough.
> Has anyone an idea how this could be implemented? Maybe a first step
> would be an implementation like
> 
> This is a very short poem to show the
>                                  [problem]
> And this is the next line!
> 
> That already would help me much!
> 
> cheers
> Arno
> 



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