[notes for a comparison of levels-of-indenting across editions]
my prediction is that stanzas are indented so that the longest line is centered... so the longer the line the smaller the indent
1922 measured in cm on a 21 cm wide page (at least 15 levels so far-- reduce to maybe 5? or add one 'em' for each step? how many em's in a iphone line? 30?):
<p>Mocker:</p> # 3 = 14%
That can enjoy 3.5
Doomed for a certain time to walk the earth. 3.5
That has been explained, I believe, by jurists. 3.5
You are my looking glass from night to morning. 4
<p>Dearest Papli,</p> # 4 = 19%
Whelps and dams of murderous foes whom none 4
<p><i>And let our crooked smokes climb to their nostrils</i></p> # 4.5 = 21%
'Twas rank and fame that tempted thee, 4.5
While his family weeps and mourns his loss 5
And in the porches of mine ear did pour. 5
<p class="indent">And therefore he left out her name</p> # 5.5 = 26%
<p>Dear Henry,</p> # 5.5cm = 26%
The hungry famished gull. 5.5
Waves o'er the waters dull. 5.5
Don Giovanni, thou hast me invited 5.5
O, won’t we have a merry time, 6
My father gave me seeds to sow. 6
<p><i>. . . . mentreche il vento, come fa, si tace.</i></p> # 6 = 29%
<p><i>To the High Sheriff of Dublin,</i></p> # 6 = 29%
Won’t you come to Sandymount, 6
O, Mairy lost the pin of her drawers. 6
How could you possibly do so? 6
Who fought with heart and hand. 6
Is coming! Is coming!! Is coming!!! 6
While you're coming through the rye. 6
Then he passed the female catheter. 6
Orchestral Satan, weeping many a rood 6
Bound thee forth, my booklet, quick 6
Never missed nor he never will.</i></p> # 6.5 = 31%
And no more turn aside and brood 6.5
Jubilantium te virginum. 6.5
The rocky road to Dublin. 6.5
Shall weave old England's winding sheet. 6.5
Then here’s a health to Mulligan’s aunt 6.5
Couch a hogshead with me then. 6.5
All dimpled cheeks and curls, 6.5
Co-ome thou dear one 6.5
'Tis time for this poor soul 7
And Ulster will be right. 7
He comes, pale vampire, 7
Don Giovanni, a cenar teco 7
<p>Miss Martha Clifford</p> # 8 = 38%
<p>Dolphin's barn lane</p> # 8 = 38%
Laud we the gods</i></p> # 8 = 38%
<p class="indent2">Him Satan fleers,</p> # 8 = 38%
O, O the boys of 8
Heigho! Heigho! 8
Plumtree’s Potted Meat? 8
Comes lo-ve’s old... 8
Là ci darem la mano 8
<p class="indent">c/o P. O.</p> # 9 = 43%
<p>Henry Flower, Esq,</p> # 9.5cm out of 21cm = 45%
You mean the will. 10
<p class="indent">c/o P. O. Westland Row,</p> # 11cm = 52%
<p class="indent2">Dublin.</p> # 12 = 57%
<p class="indent2"><i>Dublin.</i></p> #12 = 57%
<p><i>H. Rumbold,</i></p> #14 = 67%
<p class="right2">MARTHA</p> # 14.5cm = 69%
<p>— <i>7, Hunter Street,</i></p> # 14.5 = 69%
<p class="indent"><i>Liverpool.</i></p> #15 = 71%
<p class="indent2">City.</p> # 15cm = 71%
<p class="indent"><i>Master Barber.</i></p> #15 = 71%
<p class="right3"><i>(Laughter.)</i></p> # 15.5
<p class="right2">MILLY</p> # 16.5 = 79%
<p class="right2">M.</p> # 16.5 = 79%
z5 uses:
p {text-indent: 1em; margin: 0px;}
p.indent {text-indent: 5em;}
p.indent2 {text-indent: 10em;}
p.noind {text-indent: 0px;}
div.addrss {margin-left:10em;}
div.stanza {text-align: left; margin-left: 1em;}
div.center { text-align: center;}
div.stanza p { margin: 0px;}
p.quest {margin: 0px;}
span.floath {margin-left: -1em;}
p.spk {text-align: center;}
p.center {text-align: center;}
p.centerh {text-align: center;)
p.hangind {} #bloom's library p661ff
p.marg2 {} # skip a halfline??
p.right2 {}
p69:
<div class="addrss">
<p>Henry Flower, Esq,</p> # 9.5cm out of 21cm = 45%
<p class="indent">c/o P. O. Westland Row,</p> # 11cm = 52%
<p class="indent2">City.</p> # 15cm = 71%
</div>
p75:
<div class="stanza marg2">
<p>Dear Henry,</p> # 5.5cm = 26%
</div>
<p class="right2">MARTHA</p> # 14.5cm = 69%
<p class="marg">P. S. Do tell me what kind of perfume does your wife use. I want to know.</p>
<p class="marg2">He tore the flower gravely [...]</p>
p268:
<div class="addrss">
<p>Miss Martha Clifford</p> # 8 = 38%
<p class="indent">c/o P. O.</p> # 9 = 43%
<p>Dolphin's barn lane</p> # 8 = 38%
<p class="indent2">Dublin.</p> # 12 = 57%
</div>
p64:
<div class="stanza marg2">
<p>Dearest Papli,</p> # 4 = 19%
</div>
<p>Your fond daughter,</p>
<p class="right2">MILLY</p> # 16.5 = 79%
<p>P. S. Excuse bad writing, am in a hurry. Byby.</p>
<p class="right2">M.</p> # 16.5 = 79%
<p class="marg2">Fifteen yesterday. [...]</p>
p247:
<p class="marg2">Bronze by gold, Miss Douce's head by Miss Kennedy's head, over the crossblind of the Ormond bar heard the viceregal hoofs go by, ringing steel.</p>
p291:
<div class="addrss">
<p>— <i>7, Hunter Street,</i></p> # 14.5 = 69%
<p class="indent"><i>Liverpool.</i></p> #15 = 71%
</div>
<div class="stanza">
<p><i>To the High Sheriff of Dublin,</i></p> # 6 = 29%
<p class="indent2"><i>Dublin.</i></p> #12 = 57%
</div>
<p class="marg2"><i>Honoured sir i beg to offer my services in the abovementioned painful case i hanged Joe Gann in Bootle jail on the 12 of Febuary 1900 and i hanged...</i></p> <p>— Show us, Joe, says I.</p>
<p>— ... <i>private Arthur Chace for fowl murder of Jessie Tilsit in Pentonville prison and i was assistant when...</i></p>
<p>— Jesus, says I.</p>
<p>— ... <i>Billington executed the awful murderer Toad Smith...</i></p>
<p>The citizen made a grab at the letter.</p>
<p>— Hold hard, says Joe, <i>i have a special nack of putting the noose once in he can't get out hoping to be favoured i remain, honoured sir, my terms is five ginnees.</i></p>
<div class="addrss">
<p><i>H. Rumbold,</i></p> #14 = 67%
<p class="indent"><i>Master Barber.</i></p> #15 = 71%
</div>
<p class="marg2">— And a barbarous bloody barbarian he is too, says the citizen.</p>
p313:
<div class="right3">
<p><i>. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . la tua pace</i></p> # 6 = 29%
<p><i>. . . . . . . . . . . che parlar ti piace</i></p> #
<p><i>. . . . mentreche il vento, come fa, si tace.</i></p> #
</div>
p200:
<p class="right3"><i>(Laughter.)</i></p> # 15.5
p195:
<p>To whom thus Eglinton:</p> #
<div class="stanza">
<p class="indent2">You mean the will.</p> #10
<p>That has been explained, I believe, by jurists.</p> # 3.5
<p>She was entitled to her widow's dower</p>
<p>At common law. His legal knowledge was great</p>
<p>Our judges tell us.</p>
<p class="indent2">Him Satan fleers,</p> # 8 = 38%
<p>Mocker:</p> # 3 = 14%
<p class="indent">And therefore he left out her name</p> # 5.5 = 26%
<p>From the first draft but he did not leave out</p>
<p>The presents for his granddaughter, for his daughters,</p>
<p>For his sister, for his old cronies in Stratford</p>
<p>And in London. And therefore when he was urged,</p>
<p>As I believe, to name her</p>
<p>He left her his</p>
<p>Secondbest</p>
<p>Bed.</p>
</div>
<p class="center"><i>Punkt</i></p>
<div class="stanza">
<p>Leftherhis</p>
<p>Secondbest</p>
<p>Leftherhis</p>
<p>Bestabed</p>
<p>Secabest</p>
<p>Leftabed.</p>
</div>
p209:
<div class="stanza">
<p class="indent2"><i>Laud we the gods</i></p> # 8 = 38%
<p><i>And let our crooked smokes climb to their nostrils</i></p> # 4.5 = 21%
<p><i>From our bless'd altars.</i></p>
</div>
p579&c:
<div class="stanza">
<p class="indent2"><span class="floath">—</span> <i>Buffalo Bill shoots to kill,</i></p> #
<p class="indent2"><i>Never missed nor he never will.</i></p> # 6.5 = 31%
</div>
