PoetrySoup :: Typography III

Ciao amici!

In the past few weeks, I have been busy working on my website. Following the PoetrySoup crash a few months ago, I found that my changes to the display of my work here on PoetrySoup were no longer working, so I rewrote the changes and thought they might be of interest to some of you.

I discussed the method in detail in a previous post, so I will not repeat that here. As you can see, I have set up a method for displaying serif fonts on blog posts and my poetry, and other areas.

The code given below is set up for the poetry area. The upper section sets your poetry in a serif font (Palatino or Georgia in most cases) and the lower section sets your poetry right justified.

To use the code,

1. first copy the code in the shaded box below,
2. then go to the "submit poem" view of PoetrySoup,
3. scroll down to the "About Poem" box,
4. click on the "Source" button and
5. paste the code.

~beto

<style type="text/css">
.poempre {
  font:1.25rem Palatino,"Palatino Linotype",Georgia, serif;
  line-height: 1.5rem;
  padding: 20px;
}

.poempre center {
  /* use <center> to right-justify the content
     cannot use on single lines on PoetrySoup */
  text-align: right;
}
</style>