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Just so, Chris! Thanks for this clear explanation,
although I'd take exception to your last statement:
some poetry--and, I think, all prose poems--adhere to
the left margin convention.
Now, please explain what right justification is!
Candice
My dear, we're slow dancing
In a burning room
(John Mayer)
--- Chris Jones <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-02-12 at 09:37 -0700, Douglas Barbour
> wrote:
> > I'm a bit confused. Isn't the left margin always
> there?
>
> Doug, it took a while to click. Publishing jargon;
> verse is
> conventionally typeset to a left margin while prose
> is typeset as line
> length and justified over the length of that line,
> with the exception of
> the par end, of course. The position of the text
> block on the printed
> page is decided according to impositions and these
> conventions I happily
> forget, except the printer usually specifies the
> fold and cut marks.
> Verse generally has a larger margin then prose,
> according to such print
> production conventions. Anyways, set as prose, you
> don't have a left
> margin.
>
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