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-% Sophisticated typesetting of poetry
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-% (c) 1996 Mark Wooding
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% \begin{meta-comment} <general public licence>
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%% poetry package -- sophisticated typesetting of poetry
%<+package> [1996/05/28 1.00 Poetry typesetting]
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+% \CheckSum{593}
%% \CharacterTable
%% {Upper-case \A\B\C\D\E\F\G\H\I\J\K\L\M\N\O\P\Q\R\S\T\U\V\W\X\Y\Z
%% Lower-case \a\b\c\d\e\f\g\h\i\j\k\l\m\n\o\p\q\r\s\t\u\v\w\x\y\z
% are described below (if you're not interested in this sort of thing, skip
% to the next section).
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+% \begin{description} \setdescriptionlabel{\ttfamily\string#1}
% \item [stanza] is a \LaTeX\ counter which contains the current stanza
% number.
% \item [\thestanza] typesets the value of the |stanza| counter in normal