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== Overview of no-wrap == | == Overview of no-wrap == | ||
We use the no-wrap markups for certain blocks (full lines) of text: | We use the no-wrap markups for certain blocks (full lines) of text: | ||
# when line breaks and/or indentation need to be preserved. Those conditions occur with Lists, Poetry, Tables, Metrical Drama, and Front Matter such as Title Pages and Tables of Content. (This is not a complete list.) | # when line breaks and/or indentation need to be preserved. Those conditions occur with Lists, Poetry, Tables, Metrical Drama, and Front Matter such as Title Pages and Tables of Content. (This is not a complete list.) | ||
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But what is the result? As plaintiff in the cause Shylock would, in the natural course of justice, leave the court, when judgment had been given against him, with no further mortification than the loss of his suit. He is about to do so when he is recalled: /* It is enacted in the laws of Venice, &c. */ Unwittingly, he has, by the action he has taken, entangled himself with an old statute law, forgotten by all except the
Overview of no-wrap
We use the no-wrap markups for certain blocks (full lines) of text:
- when line breaks and/or indentation need to be preserved. Those conditions occur with Lists, Poetry, Tables, Metrical Drama, and Front Matter such as Title Pages and Tables of Content. (This is not a complete list.)
- when lines of text need to be right-justified.
- to call attention to certain kinds of special formatting requirements, such as the line in the above example.
- No-wraps may occur within Block Quotes, BUT *NOT* THE OTHER WAY AROUND (BECAUSE A BQ MEANS THE TEXT CAN BE RE-WRAPPED, BUT NOTHING WITHIN A NO-WRAP CAN BE RE-WRAPPED).
What all of those situations have in common is that they involve blocks of text that look different from regular text, and the line breaks in those blocks must be preserved. By contrast, when a block of text looks "different" but there is no need to preserve the line breaks, we use a Block Quote.
No-wrap or block quotes?
In this example, the line starting "It is enacted..." looks different from the other text: it's surrounded by extra white space, but it isn't a heading, so it must be marked either in no-wrap or as a Block Quote. If you were formatting the project, you would already know that this is a discussion of "The Merchant of Venice," which is a Metrical Play. That's like Verse, which is not wrappable, so it must be enclosed in no-wrap. By contrast, see the next example.