Having completed principal construction and HTML conversion on Weapon of Choice last night, I spent a while experimenting with this suggestion, and while I got it to work, I made the dismaying discovery that formatting the piece as I thought I wanted it actually makes everything worse. I think that's because of the sheer width of display available. With a maximized browser on an even modest widescreen display, a lot of paragraphs don't extend far enough to wrap, which, with the initial indent, makes the whole thing look like a wall-o-text that's all mysteriously indented to the right rather than a series of grafs indented at the beginning. The max-width attribute counteracts that, but then (unless you mess with the size of the browser window itself), anything that is centered, such as credits and song cues, winds up looking like it's floating in a sea of whitespace far off to the right of the text column, which is... not optimal in a lot of ways.

I'm sure this is, in turn, reparable with more attention to the protocols of stylesheeting, but to be perfectly frank I cannot be arsed; if I wanted to deal with that kind of thing I'd have stayed in IT. (Or, as the great physicist Enrico Fermi is reputed to have said to a younger colleague who was asking him about the dizzying profusion of sub-subatomic particles that was emerging in the early quantum mechanics era, "Young man, if I could learn the names of all these particles, I would have become a botanist.")

So thank you kindly, and this may bear further investigation in the future, but for this particular piece, I'm prepared to be content with what I've got. It would never pass any sort of code validation, I'm sure - almost everything I've done in it, presentation-wise, is supposed to be Done With CSS these days instead of the way I've done it - but it looks fine from a reasonable distance, and that's really all I give a damn about nowadays.

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