[XeTeX] issue with vertical space in verse

[Pablo Rodríguez]

Thanks, John, for your in-depth explanation.


Pablo


John Was wrote:
> Hello Pablo
> 
> You can use the tabular commands of plain TeX to have the lines of a poem 
> centred optically on the longest line, which is the usual convention for 
> poetry:
> 
> \unskip \par
> 
> \tabskip 0pt plus \hsize
> 
> \halign to \hsize{%
> 
> #\hfil\cr
> 
> }\par
> 
> 
> 
> Then just type in your poem (after the line of the above code that ends with 
> \cr), and put \cr at the end of every line.  If you want some lines kept 
> together (at least the first and last lines of the poem usually, to avoid 
> widows and orphan poetry lines), just type \noalign{\nobreak} between lines 
> of the poem.
> 
> 
> 
> If instead of having the poem optically centred on the longest line, you 
> prefer to have the lines indented by say 2em at the left, just change the 
> table definition accordingly:
> 
> 
> 
> \unskip \par
> 
> \tabskip 2em
> 
> \halign to \hsize{%
> 
> #\hfil\tabskip 0pt plus \hsize\cr
> 
> }\par
> 
> 
> 
> This works in plain TeX - I don't know if it will work exactly thus in 
> LaTeX, or whether you will need to set up a particular 'environment' for it.
> 
> 
> 
> John
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Pablo Rodríguez" <oinos at web.de>
> To: "Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and Linux" <xetex at tug.org>
> Sent: Monday, January 26, 2009 7:12 PM
> Subject: [XeTeX] issue with vertical space in verse
> 
> 
>> Hi there,
>>
>> I would like to add two verses to a text, using either the verse or even
>> the quote environment (I don't really care), but the issue I find is
>> that (as expected) both environments add an extra vertical space. Does
>> anyone know how I could remove this extra vertical space?
>>
>> As a workaround, I thought that specifying an extra left skip or margin
>> might suit my needs. But neither \setlength{\leftskip}{2em} nor
>> \setlength{\leftmargin}{2em} changes the left indentation on following
>> paragraphs. Sorry but how could I get left and right indentation?
>>
>> Thanks for your help,
>>
>>
>> Pablo
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