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From: "Juan Manuel Macías" <maciaschain@posteo.net>
To: Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>
Cc: Bastien <bzg@gnu.org>, orgmode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>,
	TEC <tecosaur@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] A proposal to add LaTeX attributes to verse blocks
Date: Sun, 02 May 2021 11:09:44 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tunlpf2f.fsf@posteo.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87tunlxws3.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> (Eric S. Fraga's message of "Sun, 02 May 2021 11:19:56 +0100")

Hi Eric and all,

Thank you for your comments.

Eric S Fraga writes:

> What is being proposed looks reasonable to me.  I don't use =verse= very
> often but have used it now and again and I can particular see the need
> for numbering and centring, in particular.

Indeed, optical centering is the correct typographic representation for
poetry and poetry quotes. There would only be a couple exceptions: a)
Certain types of avant-garde poetry (whose representation on paper is
usually freer) and b) those poems whose verses spill over the margins
and span several lines (in such case, the attribute :versewidth would
have to take the value \textwidth, and then the verse package takes care
of adjusting the overflowing part of the verses).

Here I have uploaded two very illustrative examples of optical
centering, two pages from a Tolkien book (/The Monsters and the Critics
and Other Essays/) and another page from a book that I recently
typesetted (here also includes verse numbering):

https://imgur.com/a/cGi4CpD

> Is the verse package loaded automatically already?  I did not see any
> change in the patch to that aspect and when I export a simple test, the
> package is not loaded.

For now, you need to load the verse package or add it to
org-latex-packages-alist...

Best regards,

Juan Manuel 


  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-05-02 11:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-12-17 17:23 [PATCH] A proposal to add LaTeX attributes to verse blocks Juan Manuel Macías
2021-01-03 10:25 ` TEC
2021-01-03 13:07   ` Juan Manuel Macías
2021-01-03 13:08     ` TEC
2021-01-07 18:52       ` Juan Manuel Macías
2021-05-01 10:58         ` Bastien
2021-05-01 11:46           ` Juan Manuel Macías
2021-05-02 10:24           ` Eric S Fraga
     [not found]           ` <87tunlxws3.fsf@ucl.ac.uk>
2021-05-02 11:09             ` Juan Manuel Macías [this message]
2021-05-02 11:31             ` Timothy
2021-05-03 23:22               ` Tim Cross
2021-05-08  7:31           ` Juan Manuel Macías
2021-05-15 13:46             ` Bastien
2021-05-01 10:58         ` Timothy
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2020-12-17 17:11 [patch] " Juan Manuel Macías
2021-01-03 10:22 ` TEC

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