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Message from discussion TeX and poetry: \obeylines and \smallskip
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Victor Eijkhout  
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 More options Dec 13 1990, 12:41 pm
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From: eijkh...@s41.csrd.uiuc.edu (Victor Eijkhout)
Date: 12 Dec 90 19:11:24 GMT
Local: Wed, Dec 12 1990 2:11 pm
Subject: Re: TeX and poetry: \obeylines and \smallskip
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xiao...@acsu.buffalo.edu (Xiaofei Wang) writes:
>I have a problem:

[ explanation deleted: it boils down to a sort of \parskip
 inside \obeylines ]

>{\obeylines
>I heard the trailing garments of the Night
>     Sweep through her marble halls!
>I saw her sable skirts all fringed with light
>     From the celestial walls!
>\smallskip
>I felt her presence, by its spell of might,
>    Stoop o'er me from above;
>The calm, majecstic presence of the Night,
>    As of the one I love.

>\smallskip

[etc]

Try something along these lines:

{\catcode`\^^M\active \endlinechar=-1 %
\gdef\poemobeylines{\catcode`\^^M\active
    \def^^M{\endgraf\futurelet\next\maybeskip}
    \def\maybeskip{\ifx\next^^M \bigskip \fi}}

}

and use \poemobeylines instead of \obeylines.

Victor.


 
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