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Thread #4476   Message #25453
Posted By: Bruce O.
08-Apr-98 - 04:55 PM
Thread Name: New website, old songs (Bruce O.)
Subject: RE: New website, old songs
ABC's for all the tunes in C. M. Simpson's 'The British Broadside Ballad and Its Music', 1966 are now on my website, except for 2 or 3 that I haven't figured out how to do in ABC.

I've been reformatting the texts to stagger lines and choruses, and am up againt the nasty HTLM lack of indent that Lamarca started on with Tabs in HTML. (left angle)pre(right angle) takes care of some of it, but I can't always use that on lines in my word processor, which with ASCII will only handle 10 characters per inch. I've tried mixing ASCII under 'pre' and '/pre', but get different fonts. Super and subscripts still work after 'pre' (with different font), but with several in a line, the line gets too long in ASCII, and folds over to the next. This is terrible, then, when looking at it with a web browser.

So I've still got the problem for many texts, that I can't indent correctly. I used to have a crude indent for HTML which I forgot. It was a prefexed used for a 'Table' setup. The tabbing was fixed, though, and didn't always look right.