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Proofreading Guidelines -- Special Rules for Poetry
These are special additions to the Proofreading Guidelines for Poetry.
They were created because poetry is rather specialized, and is often printed
differently than the prose works that make up much of our proofreading. So
we wanted to expand on the poetry guidelines here.
Poetry if often a bit more challenging to proofread than other texts (but often
more interesting)! Thanks for your help in proofreading these books.
- Insert a new line before the start of the poetry, and type /* on it,
and insert a new line after the end of the poetry, and type */ on it.
(These markers are to help the post processor find the poetry, which has to
be treated differently.)
- If lines are indented relative to each other, indent them to match.
- But don't try to center poetry, even if it was centered in the
printed version. (That won't work for an e-book viewed with many
different screen sizes.) Slide the lines towards the left margin, while preserving
the relative indents.
- If a line of verse is "broken" because it collided with the right
margin, join it back into a single line.
- If some words are set in ALL CAPS at the beginning of a poem (or each
stanza of a poem), change them to normal capitalization. (This was a
common typesetting convention in these older books.)
- Check the Project Comments for the specific book. Poetry books often
have special instructions from the Project Manager. (Many times, you
won't have to follow all these formatting guidelines for a book that is
mostly or entirely poetry.)
- Priority of guidelines:
First, follow any special guidelines the Project Manager gives about this
specific book in the Project Comments.
Then follow these general guidelines for Poetry.
Finally, for anything not covered here, follow the standard rules in the
Proofreading Guidelines.
Example:
[To be added...]
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