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Yann Forget yann@forget-me.net wrote:

As you mention Wikisource, there is a need for a syntax for texts in verse.

Something like

<verse> foo bar </verse>

which would replace

foo<br> bar<br>

The HTML 4.1 recommendation ( http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/text.html#h-9.3.4 ) seems to hint that the tag PRE should be used for poetry (see their example). There's still a few problems with it (like the monospace font), but nothing a little stylesheet magic couldn't fix up.

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