ayg wrote:

What's the intended difference between the prose text and ordinary untagged
text? <poem> is somewhat different in its parser behavior from ordinary text,
in that it preserves certain types of spacing during parsing.

(In reply to comment #1)

What's the intended difference between the prose text and ordinary untaggedtext? <poem> is somewhat

different in its parser behavior from ordinary text,in that it preserves certain types of spacing during
parsing.

A lot of CSS changes. Paragraphs would be indented, the alignment would be justified, the width of the page
would be drastically shortened so there would be fewer words per line. There is an attachment for the
proposal which will be added shortly.

ayg wrote:

So you're basically asking for <prose> to become an alias of <div
class="prose">? Why not just use the latter? It's only marginally longer to
type, and it doesn't require extensions to be padded on. You could even just
restyle "#content p".

(In reply to comment #3)

So you're basically asking for <prose> to become an alias of <divclass="prose">? Why not just use the latter?

It's only marginally longer totype, and it doesn't require extensions to be padded on. You could even
justrestyle "#content p".

Since this would be a site-wide style, it would be easier for newer/inexperienced users to not have to drudge
through all the different classes that are available on Wikisource and know that one tag will present the text
exactly as desired. It's far more expedient to help get people into the flow of things.

bookofjude wrote:

Quick and nasty hack of Poem extension

I have to agree with Ryan. Yes, it's not much shorter, but I think it's
inherently easier for new people to use something like <prose>...</prose> than
<div class="prose">...</div>. It also standardises all prose text into a single
class, which can then be altered in the style sheet, without having to go
through and find prose texts which use other classes or customised CSS tags.

Either way, here's an ugly hack that might do the trick.

Attached:

And what about putting those div tags in templates?

{{prose start}}
Foo bar prose
{{prose end}}

This looks intuitive enough for me. No extension work! Alternatively, you could
use something like {{prose}} and {{prose.}} or something

chinchi29 wrote:

As stated above, it's better to use templates or a CSS class instead of an extension.

The given solution isn't intuitive to newcomers.

Considering the current efforts to make editing *Wikipedia* a more intuitive expecience and the bug 52061, I'm boldly reopenning this bug.

Please also see https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52061#c38

lugosto: Why does this block bug 52061?

Have you checked https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52061#c38 ?

This is not blocking fixing bug 52061 but it likely won't matter if this ticket is open or not, as long as nobody provides a patch.