Re: Vim lines… and poetry

Thank you very much for your answer. Your suggestions will ask for
some time to study (I am just above beginner's level in Vim). I shall
mail you - if you do not mind - if I need clarification about those
two tools. Thanks again.

On Jun 19, 11:56 pm, John Magolske <listm...@b79.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> * ThG <tguille...@gmail.com> [110619 12:08]:
>
> > I use Vim to write a book.
> > Each Vim line ended by a carriage return will be a paragraph of the
> > book. Thus a single Vim line (which is wrapped, e.g. with a 80
> > character screen in 10 screen lines) can end as a 15 line paragraph in
> > the book. But I have one problem : I want to make quotes of poetry,
> > such as (Coleridge RAM.2)
>
> > The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew,
> > The furrow followed free;
> > We were the first that ever burst
> > Into that silent sea.
> > [...]
>
> I'm not sure what typsetting system(s) you are using/considering, but
> if you'd like to typset a book from the comfort of your text editor,
> I'd suggest taking a look at ConTeXt [1] and Pandoc [2]. ConTeXt is a
> very capable document processor and Pandoc is a tool that can convert
> from a simple format like Markdown [3] to a variety of other formats,
> including HTML and ConTeXt. Not sure how possible it would be to make
> these tools do exactly what you're looking for or how much work might
> be involved...but I do know there are templates in Pandoc that make
> it possible to customize the ConTeXt it will output. Here's a thread
> from the ConTeXt mailing list [4] discussing specifically how to
> typeset poetry. Both of these projects are actively maintained by very
> knowledgeable communities.
>
> [1]http://wiki.contextgarden.net/What_is_ConTeXt
>    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ConTeXt
>
> [2]http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/
>
> [3]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown
>
> [4]http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2010/052369.html
>
> HTH,
>
> John
>
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