braglidir is a web app for marking stressed and unstressed syllables (áhersluatkvæði & áherslulaus atkvæði) as well as hákveður and lágkveður (heavy foot & light foot, which denote emphasis), in Icelandic poetry.
Once you load braglidir you will be asked to type a poem in the text area or choose a file. If uploading a file, please choose a poem in a plain text file (.txt).
Once you have chosen your poem, braglidir will read it and display it on the page.
To mark a stressed syllable (áhersluatkvæði), left click on the appropriate vowel. You can remove the mark the same way. Stressed syllables are marked with a straight line above.
To mark an unstressed syllable (áherslulaust atkvæði), right click or Control-click (Mac only) on the appropriate vowel. You can remove the mark the same way. Unstressed syllables are marked with a downwards curved line above.
To split the poem into kveður (heavy feet and light feet), hold Shift and left click on the character (space or non-space) you want to be the last in said kveða. The first kveða in a line will always be a hákveða (heavy foot), and the following kveður will alternate between lágkveða and hákveða. To remove a kveða, hold shift and left click on any character within said kveða.
To mark ljóðstafir, hold Shift and right-click or Control-click (Mac only) on the appropriate character. You can remove the mark the same way. Ljóðstafir are marked with a bold font.
To mark braghvíld (cesura - a small pause), hold Alt (Option on a Mac) and click on the character you want the pause to come after. You can remove the mark the same way. Braghvíld is marked with two slashes (//).
To mark a contraction (úrfelling), hold Alt (Option on a Mac) and right click or Control-click (Mac only) on the appropriate vowel. An apostrophe (’) will appear behind it. You can remove it the same way.
braglidir is designed to output via your browser's print dialog. To save the output as a file, simply print the page to PDF. The gray background and space between characters will not be visible in the printed output.
This project is licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0. See repository LICENSE file for more details.