Re: poetry advice sought

On 28 Mar 2008, dorayme <doraymeRidThis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Chris's solution strategy is probably the best. Find the length of
the longest line in ems (-I think he arrived at 25em) and set the div
width to that, with margin:auto;. I would retain the
white-space:nowrap;, though.

You have to be a bit careful with specifying a width. With some fonts,
eg, Courier, I found 25em was too little. I was looking at B's pre and
it came up in my default Courier. But if you allow for the widest of
the fonts, you will bugger up the centering a bit! Swings and
roundabouts.

Right, and I should also mention that one should run through the gamot of
reasonable font-size adjustments in a browser when setting this.

Anyway, might as well throw in my fiddling too:

<http://netweaver.com.au/alt/yeats.html>

Looks decent to me. Centering can sometimes be fine-tuned by adding a
little padding-left to compensate for the uneven right side of text.

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