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 to explore two other possible ways to solve the
problem: Unicode probably has a diacritic mark for the traditional
stressed and unstressed symbols, and there is a way to get the pixel
coordinates of a particular character, though I don't recall the
function's name. Perhaps someone on the list can tell what the
function is. Then you could line up the text and scan lines. (I used
the latter for math equations in which one number must line up
vertically with another. As I recall, it worked well.)
Mark Greenberg
On Thursday, June 30, 2005, at 05:17 AM, Charles Hartman 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 the two lines _in relation to each
other_ is critical.
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. I'm also
not sure if that's a good idea, because I haven't yet been able to
ttest whether it will work on Windows. I'm developing on OS X.
One solution is to put all the scansion-line-pairs into Courier --
monospaced, universally available, and really ugly. Another is to do
all the scansions as graphic images, but there are hundreds of them.
Is there a better solution?
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