michelmansour / virgil

A delightful way to share, discuss, and annotate poetry
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Preserve whitespace in poems #1

Closed drewrey closed 8 years ago

drewrey commented 8 years ago

"[White space] is an active ingredient in poetic communication", so Virgil now preserves it.

I tried both pre and pre-wrap, but I found the former to better preserve the structure of the poem. In particular, when shrinking the size of my browser to where a horizontal scroll bar was necessary:

Perhaps this is the distinction implied here for pre-wrap:

Lines are broken... as necessary to fill line boxes.