RE: [Docutils-develop] Parsing oddness

David Goodger wrote:
> However, a literal block isn't really the ideal way to represent an
> address block, is it?  I've been mulling over an idea for a "verse"
> directive which seems to apply here.  See
> http://docutils.sf.net/spec/notes.html#body-verse. What do you
> think?  How about that ';;' syntax?

Hmm - a useful thing to be able to do.

I suspect that this *allows* me to handle (although not necessarily in
the way I'd like best) the majority of cases where I might want forced
line breaks - in the same way that "::" allows me to handle most places
where I want to escape a character.

As you say, the outstanding question is interpretation of inline markup
within a verse - i.e., in HTML terms, is it <pre> or not...

Thinking *about* verses, I'd obviously argue for allowing inline markup,
but am unfussed about lists (I don't have any examples *I can think of*
of poetry that uses them, for instance). But I trust you to work out the
details here, I think.

I'm not *too* keen on the use of ";;", but it does have a clear analogy
with "::", and it's unlikely to be used "by mistake". I assume the rules
of how it appears are identical to those for "::"? (i.e., precede with a
space to suppress a colon in the output?)

(personally, a "..verse" (or even "..sing"!) directive would be OK by me
as well...)

Tibs

..pedant:: In the second poem, should "stint" be "skint"?

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