Poetry in Gemini

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On 2021-01-25 (Monday) at 21:23, Miguel de Luis Espinosa <enteka at fastmail.com> wrote:

> In HTML, out of desperation, I created my own tags <verso> and <estrofa> 
> and some CSS for quite basic stuff. Not saying it's kosher, though.
> 
> But the thing is that amphora (haven't tested elsewhere) does respect 
> the spacing
> even when it's at the beginning of the line, even in regular gemini 
> text (i.e not
> preformated). However the proxis fail at this. 
> 
> I feel like the web forgot poetry, perhaps Gemini could do better. The
> potential is there.

Despite the danger of throwing this off-topic, here's how I mark-up poetry on my website (mostly; I'm correcting some things here):

```html
<p class="verse">
<span class="line">Twinkle, twinkle little star</span>
<span class="line">how I wonder what you are</span>
...
</p>
```

```css
.verse .line {
    text-indent: 1ch;
    margin-left: -1ch;
    position: relative;
    left: 1ch;
    display: block;
    white-space: pre-wrap;
}
```

I like having each line in a <span> because it feels more ... semantic, that way.

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