[Tb] Poetry in prose exports

Hello--

I've got a mostly-prose website in which I would like to occasionally
post poetry. When I post poetry, it's within a note that may also
contain prose. The problem is that I can't find a clean way to leave
blank lines for stanza breaks. Here's what I'm doing:

<div class="poetry">
Drive my dead thoughts over the universe,
    Like wither'd leaves, to quicken a new birth;
And, by the incantation of this verse,

Scatter, as from an unextinguish'd hearth
Ashes and sparks, my words among mankind!
</div>

The "poetry" css class makes the lines run up against each other like
<br> tags; that's great. My problem is that Tinderbox recognizes the
stanza break lines as empty and doesn't export them as a paragraph,
so I get this in my browser:

Drive my dead thoughts over the universe,
  Like wither'd leaves, to quicken a new birth;
And, by the incantation of this verse,
Scatter, as from an unextinguish'd hearth
Ashes and sparks, my words among mankind!

Now, I could put an __AT__nbsp; in each stanza break, and that works. It
also feels unclean, kludgy; I already feel bad about having to put
the div tags in my nice clean tinderbox text, esp. since I'd like a
solution I can give to users that don't know HTML.

I know that I could change the tag that Tinderbox uses for that note
to denote the ends of the paragraphs, but I'm still left with the
fact that the blank line doesn't register as a meaningful space.

Any ideas? Any confirmation that the non-breaking-space character is
Best Practice?

--Scott Price
Received on Tue Sep 27 11:56:08 2005