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From: cjdb@sphinx.UUCP
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Subject: Footnoting poetry in Plain TeX
Message-ID: <1594@sphinx.uchicago.edu>
Date: Fri, 1-May-87 00:08:13 EDT
Article-I.D.: sphinx.1594
Posted: Fri May  1 00:08:13 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 2-May-87 03:28:18 EDT
Organization: University of Chicago Computation Center
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Keywords: Spacing problem



I was wondering if anyone has an elegant solution for the footnoting
of poetry in Plain TeX. The surrounding text is doublespaced, using
the doublespace macro posted to the net a while back (thanks to those
who mailed me copies). For the poem itself I use a method based on p.
94 of The TeXbook: {\obeylines\smallskip\singlespace\narrower[text of
poem]}. I omit the final \smallskip; if I include it, proper footnote
numbering and positioning are disturbed. (I find, however, that I have
to indent the last line of the poem with an extra \indent.) Next I do
a \singlespace\note{note}\hfil\break\noindent\doublespace (or
...note}\par\doublespace). Everything works fine except that the last
line of the poem is also doublespaced. Is there a workaround, or
better, what is the correct approach here? (My approach strikes me as
being so klunky that I doubt that it is essentially correct.)

Thanks in advance.



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