A Haiku

I’ve been out all day so this is all I had time for.

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Haiku

[lineate]Chilli con carne[/lineate]
[lineate indent=1]Chicken vindaloo with rice[/lineate]
[lineate indent=2]My wives hated them[/lineate]

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As you will see the lines are indented. You can’t use either multiple spaces or tabs to do this because the browser will strip them out. What you can do is use short codes. The following is what I typed to get the indentation.

[code][lineate]Chilli con carne[/lineate]
[lineate indent=1]Chicken vindaloo with rice[/lineate]
[lineate indent=2]My wives hated them[/lineate][/code]

I have copied the full documentation for how to format poems below:

 

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Lineate provides two simple shortcodes for easily formatting poetry in the WordPress editor.

The first is the stanza shortcode. To indicate a stanza, wrap the appropriate text the [stanza]…[/stanza] shortcode as follows:

[stanza] In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree : Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea. [/stanza]

The amount of vertical distance between stanzas can be set on the Lineate settings page.

The second shortcode is for indicating individual lines within a stanza. To ensure that each line in the above example was rendered correctly, you would use the [lineate] shortcode as follows:

[stanza] [lineate]In Xanadu did Kubla Khan[/lineate] [lineate]A stately pleasure-dome decree :[/lineate] [lineate]Where Alph, the sacred river, ran[/lineate] [lineate]Through caverns measureless to man[/lineate] [lineate]Down to a sunless sea.[/lineate] [/stanza]

A new button is included in the visual editor for automatically wrapping individual lines in the lineate shortcode. To use the button, hightlight a single line, and click the button with the line break symbol (a red slash).

The lineate shortcode also supports indented or “dropped” lines, with three levels of indentation.

The horizontal width of each indent is set through the base indent value on the Lineate settings page. The default value is 30 pixels.

To indicate dropped lines, include the indent attribute as follows:

[stanza] [lineate]In Xanadu did Kubla Khan[/lineate] [lineate indent=1]A stately pleasure-dome decree :[/lineate] [lineate indent=2]Where Alph, the sacred river, ran[/lineate] [lineate indent=3]Through caverns measureless to man[/lineate] [/stanza]

In this example, assuming the base indent was set at 20 pixels, the second line in the stanza would be 20 pixels from the left margin, the third line would be 40 pixels from the left margin, and the fourth line would be 60 pixels from the left margin.

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If you look at the toolbar at the top of the post editor you will see a red pen icon on the left. If you select a line of a poem and click on the pen it will wrap  the line in lineage short codes.