Monday, June 8, 2009

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

We learned something new today with Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Verse comes in all shapes, and in paper books, moveable type makes representing shapely poetry easy. But in ebooks it's not so simple. The Kindle offers 6 different type-sizes, and obviously as type expands, the space around that type gets smaller. The first problem is to make poetry format within the Kindle as different from prose, and in line with the author's intention. But when the poetry does weird things, how are we supposed to make sure lines work out ok, enjamb instead of jam into each other? A magician never reveals her tricks, but here is the proverbial rabbit out of the hat:
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