Comments on: Semantically Structuring Poetry http://myfla.ws/blog/2006/12/29/semantically-structuring-poetry/ just another useless feed Sat, 05 Sep 2009 21:50:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 By: arthus http://myfla.ws/blog/2006/12/29/semantically-structuring-poetry/#comment-131104 arthus Sat, 17 May 2008 19:24:43 +0000 http://myfla.ws/blog/2006/12/29/semantically-structuring-poetry/#comment-131104 @<a href="http://myfla.ws/blog/2006/12/29/semantically-structuring-poetry/#comment-114981" rel="nofollow">dwardu</a>: I agree that not all poems/songs are the same. It really comes down to what kind of poem/song it is: where the format is the most important thing, pre tags are best. Meanwhile, where the lines are meant to form a single sentence I agree that a br tag is best. Either way, it should look fine when unstyled. Hopefully, the future should bring even more options with the introduction of the line element in XHTML 2.0 @dwardu: I agree that not all poems/songs are the same. It really comes down to what kind of poem/song it is: where the format is the most important thing, pre tags are best. Meanwhile, where the lines are meant to form a single sentence I agree that a br tag is best. Either way, it should look fine when unstyled.

Hopefully, the future should bring even more options with the introduction of the line element in XHTML 2.0

]]> By: dwardu http://myfla.ws/blog/2006/12/29/semantically-structuring-poetry/#comment-114981 dwardu Mon, 07 Apr 2008 18:23:45 +0000 http://myfla.ws/blog/2006/12/29/semantically-structuring-poetry/#comment-114981 Hello, I enjoyed reading your article because I too am interested in marking up poetry (song lyrics) (and in addition, accompanying them with their translations). First of all, it must be said that not all poetry is the same. For those poems that place a lot of meaning into their presentation, e.g. poems whose presentation on a page creates a certain shape, I think that the pre solution is the best. However, many poems/lyrics are composed of stanzas, each stanza being made up of a number of lines. Most of the time, if the lines in a stanza are strung up together, they make up a single sentence. In this case, I find using the use of br-tags to separate the lines semantically correct. <strong>I believe that what is important is that if the page is read unstyled (just basic HTML, no CSS), it is loyal to the printed poem, even if it doesn't look so nice.</strong> What you say about the br-tag not placing emphasis on the lines is true, but it can be resolved by further enclosing the lines in span-tags of class 'line', in addition to using the line-breaks. Thanks! Hello, I enjoyed reading your article because I too am interested in marking up poetry (song lyrics) (and in addition, accompanying them with their translations).

First of all, it must be said that not all poetry is the same. For those poems that place a lot of meaning into their presentation, e.g. poems whose presentation on a page creates a certain shape, I think that the pre solution is the best.

However, many poems/lyrics are composed of stanzas, each stanza being made up of a number of lines. Most of the time, if the lines in a stanza are strung up together, they make up a single sentence. In this case, I find using the use of br-tags to separate the lines semantically correct. I believe that what is important is that if the page is read unstyled (just basic HTML, no CSS), it is loyal to the printed poem, even if it doesn’t look so nice. What you say about the br-tag not placing emphasis on the lines is true, but it can be resolved by further enclosing the lines in span-tags of class ‘line’, in addition to using the line-breaks.

Thanks!

]]> By: arthus http://myfla.ws/blog/2006/12/29/semantically-structuring-poetry/#comment-41908 arthus Fri, 26 Oct 2007 11:49:48 +0000 http://myfla.ws/blog/2006/12/29/semantically-structuring-poetry/#comment-41908 Sorry, I lost the pages when I moved my site for server to server... I'll try to get some new ones up tonight. In the meantime, I use this technique in my <a href="http://myfla.ws/writing" rel="nofollow">writing section</a>. Sorry, I lost the pages when I moved my site for server to server… I’ll try to get some new ones up tonight. In the meantime, I use this technique in my writing section.

]]> By: Jé Maverick http://myfla.ws/blog/2006/12/29/semantically-structuring-poetry/#comment-41907 Jé Maverick Fri, 26 Oct 2007 11:45:21 +0000 http://myfla.ws/blog/2006/12/29/semantically-structuring-poetry/#comment-41907 Hey there...none of the links in this tutorial seem to work. Do you have the pages indexed elsewhere? Hey there…none of the links in this tutorial seem to work. Do you have the pages indexed elsewhere?

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