{"id":13194,"date":"2017-09-27T16:29:36","date_gmt":"2017-09-27T15:29:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/krabat.menneske.dk\/kkblog\/?p=13194"},"modified":"2021-02-17T18:12:18","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T17:12:18","slug":"columbus-had-an-egg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/krabat.menneske.dk\/kkblog\/2017\/09\/27\/columbus-had-an-egg\/","title":{"rendered":"the cracking of an epub egg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From a lack of free verse poetry attentive coding in the EPUB-codex, epub-readers auto-break lines in poems not intended to be broken &#8211; due to music embedded into the <em>following of lines from end to end.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It has bothered me and a host of others publishing ePoetry in .EPUB-format since way before the EPUB codex update of 2010, but in my recent, Italian poetry collection, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kipple.it\/prodotto\/rosso-niente-kenneth-krabat\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ROSSO.NIENTE.,<\/a> I kinda cracked that Columbus&#8217; egg. Which does <em>not<\/em> entail reading poetry in landscape mode&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->I had the thought: If the problem from the author&#8217;s perspective is uncontrollable and automatic re-flowing of lines on different screen sizes, making it <em>hard to impossible<\/em> for the eye to de-code rhythm and breath of long lines, why not simply make the lines stand out each on their own?<\/p>\n<p>Wow, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Egg_of_Columbus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>egg on end<\/em><\/a>: Lines of the poem in alternating black and grey!<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">If on a mobile right now, you should already see the egg standing below; otherwise try either narrowing the width of your reader or browser window (or enlarge your epub-reader&#8217;s font size in most modern\u00a0poem collections sold as\u00a0.epub\u00a0), and then you should see the advantage:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Non un qualunque cappello fuori moda<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Non voglio invecchiare<br \/>\n<\/span>il mio amore invecchia<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #808080;\">la mia memoria invecchia<br \/>\n<\/span>la mia andatura e le mie buffonate invecchiano<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #808080;\">i miei occhi invecchiano e anche le mie visioni<br \/>\n<\/span>le mie mani invecchiano le linee sulle mie mani invecchiano<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #808080;\">la mia presenza invecchia<br \/>\n<\/span>il mio posto nel mondo invecchia<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #808080;\">la mia curiosit\u00e0<br \/>\n<\/span>la mia risata e il suo risuonare<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #808080;\">le mie lacrime le mie lacrime invecchiano<br \/>\n<\/span>e i miei denti maledizione<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #808080;\">i miei denti invecchiano o comunque le mie gengive<br \/>\n<\/span>i miei piedi<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #808080;\">i miei piedi invecchiano terribilmente<br \/>\n<\/span>e la mia schiena<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #808080;\">oh le mie arcate plantari<br \/>\n<\/span>e le mie spalle invecchiano<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #808080;\">la mia consapevolezza invecchia<br \/>\n<\/span>perfino la mia autocoscienza invecchia<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #808080;\">il mio essere la mia umilt\u00e0 che pure lei invecchia<br \/>\n<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 il mio <em>sguardo<\/em> severo invecchia<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #808080;\">i lunghi peli sulle mie orecchie invecchiano<br \/>\n<\/span>e cos\u00ec i follicoli piliferi che mutano sopra i miei occhi<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #808080;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 perfino il mio spirito invecchia<br \/>\n<\/span>la mia anima<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #808080;\">la mia <em>joie de vivre<br \/>\n<\/em><\/span>e il mio piacere e i miei piaceri invecchiano<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #808080;\">i miei aneliti i miei fronzoli le mie erezioni invecchiano<br \/>\n<\/span>la mia nobilt\u00e0 invecchia<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #808080;\">la mia assennatezza e anche la mia sensibilit\u00e0<br \/>\n<\/span>perfino la mia et\u00e0 invecchia<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #808080;\">la mia vita<br \/>\n<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 invecchia le mie credenze le mie esigenze<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #808080;\">le mie appartenenze i miei odi e i miei amori<br \/>\n<\/span>invecchiano tutti i movimenti dei miei visceri<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #808080;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 invecchiano COS\u00cc tanto<br \/>\n<\/span>i miei contare i giorni<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #808080;\">i miei tirar tardi la notte<br \/>\n<\/span>i miei guardarti negli occhi<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #808080;\">i miei baciarti e far l\u2019amore con te<br \/>\n<\/span>invecchiano tutti ma io sono innamorato della vita e non voglio<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #808080;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 che <em>questo<\/em> cambi mai<br \/>\n<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 non voglio che finisca<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #808080;\">senza me e <em>questa<br \/>\n<\/em><\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00e8 cosa vecchia<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #808080;\">e cos\u00ec i miei arrivederci<br \/>\n<\/span>e pure questi baci appassionati<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #808080;\">e il dire adieu per sempre a coloro che amo<br \/>\n<\/span>se ne sono andati quasi tutti ed \u00e8 storia vecchia<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #808080;\">vedere che <em>io<\/em> <em>non<\/em> <em>sono<\/em> ancora morto<br \/>\n<\/span>sto solo invecchiando ogni minuto che passa<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #808080;\">semplicemente il mondo sta crescendo<br \/>\n<\/span>mentre io sto soltanto invecchiando<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #808080;\">qualcuno di noi raggiunger\u00e0 forse la maturit\u00e0 prima che ce ne andiamo?<br \/>\n<\/span>invecchiando cos\u00ec<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>tanto <\/em>tanta tanta crescita<br \/>\n<\/span>ancora da compiere<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; <span class=\"s1\">(translated from English into Italian by Giovanni Agnoloni)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Kenneth Krabat, 2017<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/krabat.menneske.dk\/kkblog\/ebutik\/#ROSSO\">Danish ebook shop<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/krabat.menneske.dk\/kkblog\/2010\/11\/02\/poetry-and-reflowing-text\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">first<\/a> comment on this, in Danish, in 2010, while trying to figure out whose mind to change, programmer, organisation, but as it turned out EPUB was just meant as an industry standard for novels.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211; please 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