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Re: [PATCH] A proposal to add LaTeX attributes to verse blocks
From: |
Juan Manuel Macías |
Subject: |
Re: [PATCH] A proposal to add LaTeX attributes to verse blocks |
Date: |
Sun, 02 May 2021 11:09:44 +0000 |
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