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 consecutive syllables of similar stress
though.
I'm afraid that won't work -- first, because of the problem you note,
and second, because this tutorial is meant to teach the traditional
method(s) of scansion, and this system of notation is very firmly
established in the tradition.
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.)
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?
I gather that text in any field always _has_ both an HTML and a
Unicode representation, because you can always "get HTMLText" or "get
RTFText" on these properties. Are those stored with the text itself?
How _is_ text (in a field) stored internally by Rev? Knowing that
might help me figure out the most efficient way to specify spacing in
some parts of my text.
Thanks for the suggestions.
Charles Hartman
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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