On Tuesday 02 October 2007, Donn Ingle wrote: > Hello again, > How could I shift the left edge (margin?) of the verse environment > across to the right? I would like to have it further across the page. > > I'm not sure what class is the best for setting verse. Memoir seems to > work, but each poem is oddly staggered left and right. > > Ideally, I want: > 1. Poems and titles (which appear in toc) centered on page, left > aligned to a set margin. > 2. The option to center-align some poems (so they are symetrical) - > but still central to poems above and below it. > 3. The option to stagger lines (using hspace maybe) for interesting > layouts. > > Please give me a hand. I am thinking that OpenOffice might be the way > to go, but I don't want that kind of pain! > Donn,
There is an extensive discussion of verse formatting in the manual for the Memoir class (http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/memoir/memman.pdf) starting on page 195. It isn't a trivial problem, and it will require some use of Latex, but judging from the examples given can produce some very acceptable layouts. Les -- L. R. Denham Gentoo Linux 2007.1 Kernel 2.6.19-gentoo-r5 KDE 3.5.7
