Yeah, that seems like a good way to go. Now I finally understand what
Wolfgang was saying last night :)
Since whitespace wasn't important to this particular poem, it did not matter
(using \par worked fine). But I will update my blog with this for sure, as
in the case of whitespace-sensitive poetry its a much better solution.
In general though, it is completely unnecessary, as poetry generally has no
need to be defined in macros. But it's the edge cases, where I live :)
On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 10:47 PM, Aditya Mahajan
On Thu, 16 Sep 2010, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
Am 16.09.2010 um 00:38 schrieb Aditya Mahajan:
However, \startlines..\stoplines is not available when defining a macro.
What do you mean by that these macros are not available?
Doesn't the following work? (untested, but I will be really surprised if it doesn't work)
\def\startpoety {\startlines % All the remaining setup }
\def\stoppoety {%whatever setup you want \stoplines}
He use
\def\poetry {\startlines line 1 line 2 ... \stoplines}
and this doesn't work.
Oh. In that case, I will do
\startbuffer[poerty] line 1 line \stopbuffer
\def\poetry {\startlines \getbuffer[poetry] \stoplines}
or even
\def\getpoerty#1[#2]% {\startlines \getbuffer[#2] \stoplines}
That should work (again untested).
Aditya
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