One of my lesser-known projects has been typesetting my friend Andrea's poetry. It's mostly been an experiment with wild formatting, and it's great fun. Her original work was just done as standard formatted prose in type. I wrote it all out by hand to play around with different designs. I'm now in the process of bringing it back to print, which has required me to write some software (Ruport/PDF::Writer backed) to get the effects I need. Here's a small sample of her work with my typesetting:
If you know of software that does this type of thing, let me know. Otherwise, I'll keep working on my little tool, and if it is interesting to folks, I'll release it publicly when it's more polished.
I really find her poetry beautiful, which makes working on this a total joy. It'll be 15-20 pages long by the time it is done.
