What you need is a line-break (not a return). As in all Mac DTP applications, the shortcut for that is Shift-Return.
Another approach is to use a different tag (not a paragraph) to format your poems. I often use an ordered list if I’m hand-coding, and can create a style that suppresses the line-markers. This maps nicely in terms of the code to how a scholar would think about a poem.
Type in the poem with a full return after each line, and two returns after each stanza. Select the first stanza as a block, and in the Inspector’s List segment, press the Indent right arrow once. Change the Style picker to Numbered. Now look in your Styles palette. You’ll see a new paragraph style (named style42 or similar) highlighted. Control-click on it and choose Edit Style from the contextual menu. Give the style a memorable name in the Name field. Click on the Extended button and press New in the sub-dialog that appears. Enter the following name/value pair:
- Name:
list-style-type
- Value:
none
(If you’re reading this in mail, don’t type the back-ticks (`). They are there to format this message a little more clearly on the Web, and you won’t see them in the Web view.)
Okay out of the stack of dialogs, and preview, and you should see the numbered markers disappear. The poem will still be indented, which may not be what you want. If that’s the case, go back to your Styles palette, make note of the name of your new poem style, say it’s labeled as ¶stanza. Now choose New Style from the “gear” menu and in the Tag field, enter .stanza li (leading dot is important). Tab into the Name field and delete whatever is there, then tab out to make sure that Freeway notices that you want it to be empty. Finally, in the Extended dialog as before, enter Name: margin-left, Value: 0.
There’s lots of other things you can do while you’re in here. You can create a font preference in the ¶stanza style, you can set the Space Before and Space After in ¶stanza to set the inter-stanza spacing, you can set the Leading in the .stanza li to govern how tightly the lines will appear when a long line wraps in a narrow browser, and you can set Space Before/After to govern how much line-spacing there is between lines of the poem.
Now that you have those two styles created, you can apply the ¶stanza style to each of the following stanzas in the poem. Just select all of the lines of the stanza and click once on ¶stanza in the Styles palette list. It’s very important that you never apply the .stanza li style to anything on the page – this is a Tag-only style, meaning it is stepping outside of Freeway’s understanding of HTML, and you just have to trust that it is working, even when it only appears to do so in the Preview mode.
Walter
On Jul 3, 2013, at 7:38 AM, Gerry wrote:
Dear Freeway people,
Apologies if this seems a rudimentary question, but I’ve looked for answers here and in the Freeway guides and can’t find anything. I’m setting poems for a website in HTML text, some lines of which (that is, in the main body of the poem) are variously indented. The only options that seem available in the Inspector palette are first line indent, entire text block indent, and right indent, and I’ve been through the text styles without coming up with an answer. Any advice greatly appreciated!
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