Poets know it's tricky to format poetry for eReaders and tiny mobile phone screens because of the limitations of the browsers which use specialist versions of HTML. Anything other than blank verse is very difficult to lay out. However this article from the ePubs Books Blog may be of interest to anyone attempting to publish poetry books in XHTML.
What we are going to discuss here is how to format poetry in XHTML format (which underlies EPUB) so that it looks nice on smartphone screens – that is, when many or even all of the lines do not fit the screen width. In other words, our concern is how to break poetry lines nicely....
Read the whole article over at the ePub Book Blog.
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