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- Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2012 07:27:11 +0000
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Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis <bhawkeslewis@googlemail.com> changed:
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--- Comment #1 from Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis <bhawkeslewis@googlemail.com> 2012-01-24 07:27:11 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #0)
> It is very tedious and almost impossible to properly display poetry that is
> typographically metered, specially in Arabic since it needs strict
> typographical alignments.
Can you provide an example? (You appear to be the originator of the phrase
"typographically metered".)
> The fact that Arabic readers almost always come
> across poetry on daily bases as they brows the net makes this a requirement.
> That would also almost be true for most languages which use poetic proverbs in
> articles and writings to convey ideas and thoughts.
> I can think of two solutions at this time to properly display this:
> 1. An HTML tag with attribute <poetry stanza="value">. From there, a CSS3
> selector can easily refine the presentation form of the piece.
> 2. Basically the tedious way of using <p> and/or <table> and/or <li> and/or
> <span> etc then applying a presentation formatting on selectors. Not an
> eloquent way at all to say the least.
What's wrong with using <pre> when you need "strict typographical alignments"
for poetry?
http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/grouping-content.html#the-pre-element
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