2006/7/25, Ryan Dabler <zhaladshar@gmail.com>:

So now, at least at Swedish Wikisource experiments with similar templates have been started. That is an option, but adding a semantic tag resulting in the need of templates seems a bit awkward to me.

Could you explain what you mean by this statement? I don't quite understand. What semantic tag have we added that results in the need of a template?

Oh, the <poem> tag of course! Before that all the poems (at least at our little wiki) were formated with manual indentions, like

: First line of the poem
: Second line of the poem
: Third line of the poem
:
: First line of the second stanza
: Second line of the second stanza
: Third line of the second stanza

It solved two problems at one go: the format of the poem, and the distinction between intro text and poem. The poem tag takes care of the first one of these, but not the second and so, we need another solution for that.

/habj