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Steve Litt | 24 Jun 2012 01:25
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How do you use the Verse environment?

Hi all,

For the first time, I need to put a poem in one of my books. I figured
the way to do that is the Verse environment. But when I used it, each
line was separated quite a bit from the ones before and after, and also
there was no way that separate verses (in the poetic sense) could be
separated more without ERT or a different environment.

What's the correct way to write a poem in LyX?

Thanks

SteveT

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Charlie | 24 Jun 2012 01:37
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Re: How do you use the Verse environment?

 On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 19:25:47 -0400 "Steve Litt
 slitt <at> troubleshooters.com" suggested this:

>What's the correct way to write a poem in LyX?

I probably don't do it the correct way. But it might help even though
it's a kludgy way of doing it.

After each line in the verse, I hold down the Ctrl key to keep the
next line within reasonable distance of the one above.

Between each verse I "don't" hold down the Ctrl key to get the space.

There is probably a better and "proper" way to do it, so I will be
interested in the replies you receive.

But for now it might suffice?

Charlie
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Steve Litt | 24 Jun 2012 06:45
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Re: How do you use the Verse environment?

On Sun, 24 Jun 2012 09:37:17 +1000, Charlie said:
>  On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 19:25:47 -0400 "Steve Litt
>  slitt <at> troubleshooters.com" suggested this:
> 
> >What's the correct way to write a poem in LyX?
> 
> I probably don't do it the correct way. But it might help even though
> it's a kludgy way of doing it.
> 
> After each line in the verse, I hold down the Ctrl key to keep the
> next line within reasonable distance of the one above.
> 
> Between each verse I "don't" hold down the Ctrl key to get the space.
> 
> There is probably a better and "proper" way to do it, so I will be
> interested in the replies you receive.
> 
> But for now it might suffice?

Yes. Thanks. That will be my Plan B if I don't find anything else to do.

SteveT

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Charlie | 24 Jun 2012 07:06
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Re: How do you use the Verse environment?

 On Sun, 24 Jun 2012 00:45:45 -0400 "Steve Litt
 slitt <at> troubleshooters.com" suggested this:

>On Sun, 24 Jun 2012 09:37:17 +1000, Charlie said:
>>  On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 19:25:47 -0400 "Steve Litt
>>  slitt <at> troubleshooters.com" suggested this:
>> 
>> >What's the correct way to write a poem in LyX?
>> 
>> I probably don't do it the correct way. But it might help even though
>> it's a kludgy way of doing it.
>> 
>> After each line in the verse, I hold down the Ctrl key to keep the
>> next line within reasonable distance of the one above.
>> 
>> Between each verse I "don't" hold down the Ctrl key to get the space.
>> 
>> There is probably a better and "proper" way to do it, so I will be
>> interested in the replies you receive.
>> 
>> But for now it might suffice?
>
>Yes. Thanks. That will be my Plan B if I don't find anything else to
>do.
>
>SteveT
>

I hope you get a reply showing how to use the verse element in LyX
better, because I would like to know.
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Guenter Milde | 24 Jun 2012 15:55

Re: How do you use the Verse environment?

On 2012-06-23, Charlie wrote:
>  On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 19:25:47 -0400 "Steve Litt
>  slitt <at> troubleshooters.com" suggested this:

>>What's the correct way to write a poem in LyX?

> I probably don't do it the correct way. But it might help even though
> it's a kludgy way of doing it.

> After each line in the verse, I hold down the Ctrl key to keep the
> next line within reasonable distance of the one above.

> Between each verse I "don't" hold down the Ctrl key to get the space.

This is the "canonical way" to use the verse environment. Just like
address, it expects "hard" line breaks ("\\" in LaTeX) inside a stanza,
while [Enter] will start a new paragraph (a blank line in the LaTeX source)
which corresponds to a new stanza.

See also the "verse" package and its documentation:
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/verse

Günter
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