On 7/1/05 9:41 AM, Charles Hartman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It is the case. It's the spaces, not the visible characters, whose
representation seems to depend on unknown (inaccessible?) contextual
factors.
Is it possible it's just Palatino? Or did you try other fonts?
Just curious...
Ken
It might well be just Palatino. I'm just finishing up recasting the
examples (only) in Courier, and haven't seen a problem there.
Palatino is probably not a good choice anyway (though it's my
favorite font for many purposes) -- I see that my 24-point Palatino
title on the top card of my
Sometime around 30/6/05 (at 08:02 -0400) Charles Hartman said:
I'm finding that when I close and reopen my stack, the spacing of
the upper (scansion) line is sometimes off -- too condensed or too
spaced out. I set the Font for the whole stack file to Palatino.
Are you saying the type changes
It is the case. It's the spaces, not the visible characters, whose
representation seems to depend on unknown (inaccessible?) contextual
factors.
It looks like I'm settling on using (ugly!) Courier for the spacing-
critical text within fields.
On Jun 30, 2005, at 8:27 AM, keith wrote:
I'm reviving an old Hypercard tutorial on English Metrics -- how to
scan metrical verse in English. It contains lots of scansions, which
have this general form:
x / | / / | x (/) | x/ | x (/)
A sight so touching in its majesty
As you can see, the spacing of
Your display will not view like you want unless you use a monospaced
font such as Courier, Monaco or Tahoma. Verdana, maybe, I'm not
sure.
Palatino is a proportional font. Courier can be ugly, I don't use it
myself except for code.
I'm finding that when I close and reopen my stack, the
Charles,
I'd be tempted to show the stressed syllables in bold or blue or some
other visually different format within the line. That way the text and
the scansion line will never be out of sync. This solution won't
account for consecutive syllables of similar stress though.
You might want
On Jun 30, 2005, at 9:34 AM, Mark Greenberg wrote:
Charles,
I'd be tempted to show the stressed syllables in bold or blue
or some other visually different format within the line. That way
the text and the scansion line will never be out of sync. This
solution won't account for
Charles -
One thing you can do (which I'm doing for text in cross-platform
training screens) is to set up your text on your platform of choice in
your font of choice, then snapshot it. In the stack you distribute, show
images only, not actual text. It'll display perfectly, guaranteed,
Charles,
What you are doing would be much easier with a monospaced font. Courier
is the only one distributed on all platforms and, yes, it IS ugly. It also
prints a bit differently on different platforms and different printers.
Bitstream Vera is an opensource, cross-platfrom typeface
I guess I don't quite see how that would work in detail, but I can
look for it. It sounds, though, like an _awful_ lot of very finicky
work, on every individual example, of which there are a pretty large
number.
Is there some HTML-tag or RTF-tag approach to this problem?
The HTML-tag (div+css)
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