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I use LaTeX to nicely typeset poems with the package verse.

Here a MWE 

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{verse}
\verselinenumbersleft
\poemlines{2}
\setlength{\vrightskip}{-3em}

\begin{document}

\poemtitle{Garden}

\begin{verse}
I used to love my garden \\
But now my love is dead \\
For I found a bachelor's button \\
In black-eyed Susan's bed. \\!
\end{verse}

\end{document}

Which produces

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Yet when I copy/paste the poem from the PDF into a plain text file (such as MS Word) I loose the margin formatting:

Garden
I used to love my garden
2 But now my love is dead
For I found a bachelor's button
4 In black-eyed Susan's bed.

Is there anyway to structure the PDF so to embed the information of the margins (maybe with a tab character) into the text strings? Or should I use a tabular environment instead of a verse environment? Of course, the latter will be preferred.

Francesco
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  • Sincerely I can't see what's the problem?. Why you have to copy the poem from the PDF and paste it into Word o_O? Could you explain it better? – Aradnix May 07 '14 at 07:51
  • If you want to squelch line numbers and preserve any indentation, see http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/49507 and http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/148661/7883. – Thérèse May 13 '14 at 11:56

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