formating poetry

I am publishing a book which includes poetry. The publisher says I cannot
show any formatting marks. I can hardly set a right margin with different
length lines of prose of poetry. Can you help me with this?
--
npille

On Jan 1, 9:05*am, npille <npil...@aol.com.(donotspam)> wrote:
> I am publishing a book which includes poetry. *The publisher says I cannot
> show any formatting marks. * I can hardly set a right margin with different
> length lines of *prose of poetry. Can you help me with this? *
> --
> npille

You failed to mention which word processing program you are using to
write poetry.
What does this have to do with Vista? Vista is an operating system,
not a word processor.

npille <.(donotspam)> wrote:

>I am publishing a book which includes poetry. The publisher says I cannot
>show any formatting marks. I can hardly set a right margin with different
>length lines of prose of poetry. Can you help me with this?

You don't say what application you're using to do this, or just what's
meant by "formatting marks". Any word processor - MS Word, OpenOffice,
even Wordpad, to some extent - will be able to format your text and
display or print it with only the text showing. In Word you could set
different margins for different lines. You could set styles for the
different line setups, that would make it easier to invoke.

--
Tim Slattery
MS MVP(Shell/User)

http://members.cox.net/slatteryt

-- I am using Word for Windows 2007 _ I realize Vista is the operating
system but I am having difficulties finding out information for any programs
operated by
vista and I thought I might get some help.
npille


"dragunovguy" wrote:

> On Jan 1, 9:05 am, npille <npil...@aol.com.(donotspam)> wrote:
> > I am publishing a book which includes poetry. The publisher says I cannot
> > show any formatting marks. I can hardly set a right margin with different
> > length lines of prose of poetry. Can you help me with this?
> > --
> > npille
>
> You failed to mention which word processing program you are using to
> write poetry.
> What does this have to do with Vista? Vista is an operating system,
> not a word processor.
>

Tim: I am using Word 2007 in Vista - by formatting marks they are telling me
not to use -for example - the New Paragraph mark after each line - instead I
use the line mark for a new line - I am only asking the discussion group
because I can't make heads nor tails out of any help programs through Vista.
Of course I know I can hide or show any formatting marks. I certainly don't
want to have to set margins for every line - this sounds strange to me. Oh,
never mind. I sound like a complete idiot and I may be, but I have used
computers for 20 years, you'd think I know more. thanks fro trying.
--
npille


"Tim Slattery" wrote:

> npille <.(donotspam)> wrote:
>
> >I am publishing a book which includes poetry. The publisher says I cannot
> >show any formatting marks. I can hardly set a right margin with different
> >length lines of prose of poetry. Can you help me with this?
>
> You don't say what application you're using to do this, or just what's
> meant by "formatting marks". Any word processor - MS Word, OpenOffice,
> even Wordpad, to some extent - will be able to format your text and
> display or print it with only the text showing. In Word you could set
> different margins for different lines. You could set styles for the
> different line setups, that would make it easier to invoke.
>
> --
> Tim Slattery
> MS MVP(Shell/User)
>
> http://members.cox.net/slatteryt
>

Tim: I am using Word 2007 in Vista - by formatting marks they are telling me
not to use -for example - the New Paragraph mark after each line - instead I
use the line mark for a new line - I am only asking the discussion group
because I can't make heads nor tails out of any help programs through Vista.
Of course I know I can hide or show any formatting marks. I certainly don't
want to have to set margins for every line - this sounds strange to me. Oh,
never mind. I sound like a complete idiot and I may be, but I have used
computers for 20 years, you'd think I know more. thanks fro trying.
--
npille


"Tim Slattery" wrote:

> npille <.(donotspam)> wrote:
>
> >I am publishing a book which includes poetry. The publisher says I cannot
> >show any formatting marks. I can hardly set a right margin with different
> >length lines of prose of poetry. Can you help me with this?
>
> You don't say what application you're using to do this, or just what's
> meant by "formatting marks". Any word processor - MS Word, OpenOffice,
> even Wordpad, to some extent - will be able to format your text and
> display or print it with only the text showing. In Word you could set
> different margins for different lines. You could set styles for the
> different line setups, that would make it easier to invoke.
>
> --
> Tim Slattery
> MS MVP(Shell/User)
>
> http://members.cox.net/slatteryt
>

I think you need to ask the publisher to clarify what he means.


"npille" <.(donotspam)> wrote in message
news:62C8A8A2-EB28-419C-967F-...

-- I am using Word for Windows 2007 _ I realize Vista is the operating
system but I am having difficulties finding out information for any programs
operated by
vista and I thought I might get some help.
npille


"dragunovguy" wrote:

> On Jan 1, 9:05 am, npille <npil...@aol.com.(donotspam)> wrote:
> > I am publishing a book which includes poetry. The publisher says I
> > cannot
> > show any formatting marks. I can hardly set a right margin with
> > different
> > length lines of prose of poetry. Can you help me with this?
> > --
> > npille
>
> You failed to mention which word processing program you are using to
> write poetry.
> What does this have to do with Vista? Vista is an operating system,
> not a word processor.
>

npille <.(donotspam)> wrote:

>Tim: I am using Word 2007 in Vista - by formatting marks they are telling me
>not to use -for example - the New Paragraph mark after each line - instead I
>use the line mark for a new line

It is a PITA to do this in Word, in my limited experience. How about
setting tabs, and just using the tab key on each line?

--
Tim Slattery
MS MVP(Shell/User)

http://members.cox.net/slatteryt

On Tue, 01 Jan 2008 06:05:01 -0800, npille wrote:

> I am publishing a book which includes poetry. The publisher says I
> cannot show any formatting marks. I can hardly set a right margin with
> different length lines of prose of poetry. Can you help me with this?

awhhh and I thought you would write us some real "formatting poetry" like
this: *music is like the Christmas jingle = Winter Wonderland (*)

Everyone knows vista is a stinky
and the dork who uses it is a minky

format your H Dee, and sing with me...
say goodbye to vista horridland...

If your name is Franky, or the evil monkey de spanky
You know its true, you're a smoo,
say goodbye to vista horridland...


Ever saw a vista that was working?
I know that question already got you smirking!
You know its true, you're a smoo,
say goodbye to vista horridland...

vista is so horrid its pathetic,
a "working vista" is a notion thats heretic...
You know its true, you're a smoo,
say goodbye to vista horridland...


Winter Wonderland (*) http://www.carols.org.uk/winter_wonderland.htm

Well, thanks for the laugh you gave me and boy, do I agree with you
Here's my problem. For 19 years I used MS Word. If I was puzzled by
something I wanted to do all I had to do was post a question. Zip. Now, if I
ask, I am told to read an article, ask someone to help me (who?) or if If I
put in a question for help,
I get a lot of answers, none of which refer to the question. I'll just have
to struggle by
because If I look in one of the three books I have, it is the same thing.
No straight answers, like i.e. 1. do this 2. do this 3. do this
thanks anyway, I might go to an Apple or
ac (do they still make them) Good natured anyway, despite the bad words
coming from my computer room.
--
npille


"non flammable on Ubuntu 7.10" wrote:

> On Tue, 01 Jan 2008 06:05:01 -0800, npille wrote:
>
> > I am publishing a book which includes poetry. The publisher says I
> > cannot show any formatting marks. I can hardly set a right margin with
> > different length lines of prose of poetry. Can you help me with this?
>
> awhhh and I thought you would write us some real "formatting poetry" like
> this: *music is like the Christmas jingle = Winter Wonderland (*)
>
> Everyone knows vista is a stinky
> and the dork who uses it is a minky
>
> format your H Dee, and sing with me...
> say goodbye to vista horridland...
>
> If your name is Franky, or the evil monkey de spanky
> You know its true, you're a smoo,
> say goodbye to vista horridland...
>
>
> Ever saw a vista that was working?
> I know that question already got you smirking!
> You know its true, you're a smoo,
> say goodbye to vista horridland...
>
> vista is so horrid its pathetic,
> a "working vista" is a notion thats heretic...
> You know its true, you're a smoo,
> say goodbye to vista horridland...
>
>
> Winter Wonderland (*) http://www.carols.org.uk/winter_wonderland.htm
>
>
>
>