This is an old revision of the document!
For the most part poetry is marked up the same way as other text.
Use Normal
style for the content, and Heading
styles for Chapters, Sections, and Poem Titles.
Poetry is an artistic medium, so we retain direct formatting such as: strong, emphasis, underline, and strikethrough.
Languages can be applied as needed. See the Language section for more info.
Sometimes you will come across a poem that has more complex formatting that can not be translated to EPUB.
We can not retain this formatting for EPUB conversion.
In these cases include a Producer's Note at the beginning of the book.
Producer's Note [Heading Style 1]
This book originally appeared with special paragraph and line spaces that added to the meaning of the text. Due to the conversion process these design elements have been removed. For poems that originally appeared with more complex formatting there are in-text producer’s notes.
For more info please go to the Producer's Note page.
The more common forms of complex formatting are:
In poetry the use of blank space on a page, between lines, words, or even letters, can be used to convey meaning. We can not retain blank spaces.
Lines, stanzas, or entire poems can use right justification to convey meaning. We can not retain right justification.
A Concrete poem is a poem where the words create a shape on the page that conveys a visual meaning. We can not retain the original shape of a concrete poem.
Sometimes you will come across images of text in poems. This is a big no-no in publishing and not accessible. See the section on Images of Text for more.
We transcribe all images of text and mark up with the appropriate NNELS styles.
Sometimes you will find the poet has used an image of a black bar to signify the censorship of a word of phase. In this can you can keep the image and add the Alt-Text "Thick black bar blocking out word/phrase."