Unwelcome poetry reflow from .txt

[gbnewby]

My understanding, and some of our documentation, is that adding two spaces at the start a line prevents it from being wrapped, when promoted to HTML5.

In https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/74578 unwelcome wrapping is occurring with a poetry fragment starting with:

Maan tomu-uurna:

tulen ja tuhkan taru kiertää sen.

Is this something that recently stopped working in ebm? Or, is our understanding of how to prevent wrapping, for poetry & other content, incorrect?

[eshellman]

No changes in 10 years AFAIK. Looking at the source file, I'm guessing that the plain text parser is interpreting the first few stanzas as verse and the stuff after "Maan" as justified plaintext.

Can't change the plain text parsing behavior. if there's documentation that's wrong, we can correct it.

[gbnewby]

Ok - seems that if lines start with a capital letter, it's not wrapped. If lines start with a lower case letter and there is no blank line, it's wrapped unless there is a blank space between lines.

I'm informing the submitter.

On Mon, Oct 14, 2024 at 7:54 PM Eric Hellman @.***> wrote:

No changes in 10 years AFAIK. Looking at the source file, I'm guessing that the plain text parser is interpreting the first few stanzas as verse and the stuff after "Maan" as justified plaintext.

Can't change the plain text parsing behavior. if there's documentation that's wrong, we can correct it.

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[eshellman]

The best signal for verse paragraphs in text is: more than one line indented with respect to the first line of the paragraph.

We can improve our css to left justify the verse if that is desired.