Help with poetry and spacing

  • Unknown's avatar
    themovieandthemuse · Member ·

    Hi

    I have already read some of the help articles on poetry and line spacing and have a question about line spacing.

    My site contains poetry and the formatting is fine when I preview the poem for desktop or tablet. However, when I preview the poem for a mobile, one of the words in the poem shifts to the next line down. This is on the Wuthering Heights poem.

    The line I am having trouble with is:

    ‘By craggy stones with sunken marsh mouths
    Swallowed in years of hollowed anguish’

    When I publish the poem, the lines read like this on a mobile:

    ‘By craggy stones with sunken marsh
    mouths
    Swallowed in years of hollowed anguish’

    So basically, it is putting the word ‘mouths’ on a separate line, rather than keeping it on the first line.

    I have tried to use the pre-formatting code but no success so far. I would be grateful if someone might post some straight forward steps to follow to show how I might sort this. Many thanks.

    The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

  • aleone89 · Staff ·

    Hello there,

    Many thanks for reaching out.

    I see what you mean and this is something I can replicate. This isn’t really a case of line spacing, but the number of words appearing in that space.

    It’s behaving as it should do so that the text doesn’t run off the screen.

    I would recommend changing the text size in the options on the right hand side, to avoid this, but this could make the text unreadable if the text is too small.

    I hope this proves useful.

  • Unknown's avatar
    themovieandthemuse · Member ·

    Many thanks for the advice, this is very useful.

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