Lineate Stress Matrix

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P1 staircase 0-8

step level 0
step level 1
step level 2
step level 3
step level 4
step level 5
step level 6
step level 7
step level 8

P2 long lines

This line is deliberately far longer than any reasonable content column so that it must soft-wrap at least once on desktop and several times on a phone, proving the hanging indent
An indented long line that also wraps: the estuary kept its own ledger of arrivals and departures, salt-signed and provisional, requiring no witness but the moon
supercalifragilisticexpialidociousantidisestablishmentarianismpneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis


P3 gaps

two four eight end
gap at start of line
gap at end of line
adjacent gaps
italic across a gap

P4 center-lines

centered line one
centered longer line two

P4b right

right aligned
with an indent

P5 center-block

short
the longest line determines the block position
mid-length line

P6 scroll

this concrete-poetry line must never ever wrap because wrapping would destroy the deliberate spatial arrangement the poet constructed character by character across the page and beyond it
short anchor line

P7 unicode

“curly” — it’s… naïve café
春はあけぼの。やうやう白くなりゆく山際
🌊 the wave 🐚 returns
Zalgo-ish: e̋xtra c̆ombining marks

P8 inline formats

em strong strike sub sup code
a link inside a poem line

P9 hang0

hanging indent disabled: this long line must wrap perfectly flush left with no continuation indent visible at any width whatsoever, truly flush

P9b hang2.5 step4ch

custom: big hang and ch steps wrapping line that is long enough to wrap on phones at least once for sure, yes definitely long enough

P10 stanza indent + supports

first stanza flush

second stanza indented as a whole

P12 empties

above an intentionally empty line

below the empty line

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so this is more than we can say