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Avoid stanza indentation in eledpar
I'm typesetting epic verse in parallel text format, i.e. with the original langugage on one page and the translation on the facing page. Having played around with a number of parallel packages, it ...
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Starting a line where the previous line finishes
I have been using LaTeX for standard things like letters and scientific reports.
I recently came to visit my grandmother who writes some poetry and told her I could make a nice pdf from her ...
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Typesetting poems
I have ~250 poems to typeset, consisting of ~40 verses each. 99% are in this form:
line 1
line 2
line 3
line 4
line 5
line 6
line 7
line 8
...
The "source" of each poem is a PDF file which I use ...
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Running heads containing verse line numbers?
I'm typesetting a long poem using memoir and the verse environment. I would like to provide running heads showing the numbers of the first and last lines appearing on that page (like "lines 36--81").
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Indenting with poemscol package
I'm trying to typeset a poem collection with poemscol. The result looks like this:
I'd like to control the distances marked in red (I don't want any moving to the right); but all attempts with ...
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Typesetting ornamental cards?
I'm currently trying to print out some small poems onto card, and I stumbled onto the article "Typesetting modern & contemporary poetry with LaTeX".
Some of the examples in there are truly ...
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How to place author’s name below her/his text?
Is there an elegant way to place the name of an author blow her/his poem or text (in an anthology of different authors)? The name should be flushed right, have vertical space (e.g. 1em), should not be ...
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Golden Ratio for vertical poem positioning
On a single page, is it possible to vertically position a poem in the Golden Ratio? Look at the sketch to know what I mean.
The vertical red line is dived by the Golden Ratio. The vertical centre of ...
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Line numbers in traditionalpoem environment?
So I've been trying to get satisfactory results typesetting Persian and Arabic poems, in the traditional format, with XeLaTeX. It works just about fine – see the sample document below – but I would ...
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Poetry in footnote
I need to write a translation to poetry into footnote.
I failed to find any good way to markup this:
\footnote{line1\\line2}
By default, footnote's first line have smaller indent that the second ...
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Stanza breaks with verse package
I am trying to enforce stanza breaks via a blank line as explained in the verse package documentation.
Stanza breaks do not seem to eventuate with this MWE:
\documentclass{memoir}
\usepackage{verse}
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verselinenumbersleft with twocolumn
Situation: a poem in the verse environment of the verse package, while the entire page is set with the twocolumn option. Line numbering is enabled via \poemlines{1} and set to the left by ...
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How to write poem in two languages, one on left and the other on right page
How can I have on poem in two different languages written such that in one language it is on the left page and in the other language it is on the right side. Since I have several poems I would like to ...
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Typesetting a poem book for manual binding
I would like to typeset a poem book, which I am planning to print then stitch and bind manually. My requirements are:
The book should be printed on A4 paper, with two A5 pages on each side.
It ...
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Is there a template available that allows easy publishing of poem book?
I would like to layout a professionally designed book containing poems. What template should I use?
