I use LaTeX to nicely typeset poems with the package verse.
Here a MWE
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{verse}
\verselinenumbersleft
\poemlines{2}
\setlength{\vrightskip}{-3em}
\begin{document}
\poemtitle{Garden}
\begin{verse}
I used to love my garden \\
But now my love is dead \\
For I found a bachelor's button \\
In black-eyed Susan's bed. \\!
\end{verse}
\end{document}
Which produces
Yet when I copy/paste the poem from the PDF into a plain text file (such as MS Word) I loose the margin formatting:
Garden
I used to love my garden
2 But now my love is dead
For I found a bachelor's button
4 In black-eyed Susan's bed.
Is there anyway to structure the PDF so to embed the information of the margins (maybe with a tab character) into the text strings? Or should I use a tabular environment instead of a verse environment? Of course, the latter will be preferred.
