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Questions tagged [verse]

{verse} is for questions addressing issues related to the verse package.

verse is a package that provides some aids for typesetting simple verse (poems). The pack­age is strong on lay­out, from sim­ple al­ter­nate-line in­den­ta­tion to the Mouse's tale from Alice in Won­der­land.

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Verse Package: unwanted vertical space between lines

This is an issue that's been bothering me for a while. I'm interested in typesetting poetry on narrow pages. I'm using the verse package to set the poem and the geometry package to manage the page size. When the length of a line of text just reaches…
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Add comments in a verse environment

I'm using the verse environment to write some biblical text. It's nice tool for that. Now, I need to write some comments on the right side (not in the margins) as comments for texts blocks. Here is my code: \documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{article}…
LuCouto
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Alignment of single verses with the verse package

I want to align some lines within a verse environment horizontally to the right, as the MWE bellow shows. For this, neither \hfill nor \flushright work properly. I show my best approach in the MWE: It aligns correctly but doesn't show verse…
e_moro
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How to avoid the duplicate line numbering when using an in-line linebreak?

I am using the verse package to typeset some poetry. Consider the following MWE: \documentclass{article} \usepackage{verse} \begin{document} % count the verses \poemlines{5} \begin{verse} First,\\ second,\\ third,\\ fourth,\\ fifth\\> and…
olinarr
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\poemtitle center of the \versewidth

MWE \documentclass[a5paper,11pt]{book} \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} \usepackage{lmodern} \usepackage{verse} \usepackage{showframe} \setlength{\leftmargini}{0em} \begin{document} \newcommand{\attrib}[1]{% \nopagebreak{\raggedle…
Özgür
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Flagverse command after the verse

In verse package, one can write anything before a line using \flagverse{}. This command, however, must also come before the line. This causes some trouble to read the lines in the source, since it's confusing to distinguish what is line and what is…
Rhythmical Diphthong
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How to number verses?

In Format verses with incrementing counters it was asked about numbering verses. I responded that the verse package might help, which I still think it could do so, but since then I have been wondering about terminology before trying to improve the…
Peter Wilson
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Multiple columns poetry, 4 parallel poems

I want an A3 paper size output with 4 parallel poems; three of them are actually the translations of the first one. How can I do it? …
niru1
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\poemtitlenotitle in verse package

poemscol has a \poemtitlenotitle macro which according to the documentation: "does not produce a title in the text, but sets its argument in the table of contents and in the notes. Usually you use the first line as the moral equivalent of a…
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Flush poems to bottom of page

MWE \documentclass[a5paper,11pt]{book} \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} \usepackage{lmodern} \usepackage{verse} \usepackage{showframe} \begin{document} \newcommand{\attrib}[1]{% \nopagebreak{\raggedleft\footnotesize\textit{#1}\pa…
Özgür
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Problem at the end of a stanza - verse Package

I'm learning LaTeX, and have a problem with the \\! macro. When I write for example : Comme un soleil couchant dans un ciel nébuleux. \\! This is what I get on my pdf: Comme un soleil couchant dans un ciel nébuleux. ! Can someone tell…
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Numbering stanzas instead of lines with verse package

I'd like to reproduce the way stanzas (8-line stanzas) are numbered in this image bellow. Please, don't mind reproducing its details, italics, adornments, and capital letter etc. I am only looking for a way to automatically number stanzas, at the…
Rhythmical Diphthong
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How do you reduce the space between a poem and the poemline-counter

In the following part of a poetic text (Sophocles’ »Antigone«, ll. 1137–1142), the verses are quite…
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