Re: [Docutils-users] paragraphs for poems

[<joh...@ri...>]

Gabor,

Tell me, wouldn't you use some kind of writer to control the formatting?  If 
the poem is one long stanza, wouldn't the idea be to write it in ReST as one 
stanza (or paragraph).

Then, if you were to take the restructured text and transform it to HTML 
(for instance), wouldn't  you use a stylesheet to introduce whitespace 
between lines?

If you did want a blank line between each line (and if you were going to 
LaTeX), you might edit line 104 of Engelbert Gruber's original file (sent 
earlier), or the one I'm working on here:

http://svn.vintagespies.com/poems/scripts/docutils/rst2verse.py

And change this to have two backslashes and an exclamation point:

    def depart_line(self, node):
        self.body.append(' \\\\!\n')

In LaTeX, this would give you a blank space between each line.


On 1/3/07, Rongits G?bor <dt...@ma...> wrote:
> I am Gabor, and my question is as follows: it is very useful to have a
> blank line between paragraphs, but what if I want to edit a poem in a
> way that each line is in a separate row, but there is no space between
> the single rows (this is the case when I use a blank line), practically
> the whole poem is one paragraph. So I would need an <enter> in the
> paragraph. How I can do it?