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Re: silly little text problem



Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 03:50:27PM -0500, Jordi Guti?rrez Hermoso wrote:
On 15/06/2008, Douglas A. Tutty <dtutty@porchlight.ca> wrote:
 My wife has a poem she wants typed up in a particular format:

 First line unindented
        next four lines indented
 next line unindented
You may want to use the verse environment for this. It's in the
texlive-humanities package.

Documentation:

     http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/verse/verse.pdf

Are you doing typesetting or is your wife doing it? Does she enjoy
typing in LaTeX?

No, its me that does the typing.  She did the layout by hand and wants
it to stay the same.

I'm in Etch and don't see a texlive-humanities package, but I do see the
verse environment in texlive-latex-extra.

texlive-humanities is in lenny and sid. Probably some shuffling around of latex packages. You should be able to get it from ctan if it is not there in the package.

I just read the doc and it at
least gives a clue on how to do it manually with inserting space for the
indent: a little tedious and I'll see if it can be improved.

The verse.pdf file (link below) says that it is possible to achieve indentation of even numbered lines using the `altverse' environment within the verse environment.


I wonder why I can't find that verse.pdf file with texdoctk?  It doesn't
even show if I click on search and enter verse.

I think the pdf may be there in the texlive-latex-extra-doc package. Here is a ctan link to the file.

http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/verse/verse.pdf



Thanks for the pointer.

Doug.




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