Thanks, Jezebel. I'll try those fixes. However, there will still be a couple
of problems.
1. Am I limited to finite point sizes? If so, then (I haven't tried it yet,
so I don't know, but I suspect) I could still end up with something that
looks crappy. Like I said, I don't know yet, but it might be I'll be caught
between something which looks too much like double-spacing, and something
where the symbol characters are still too small compared to the regular text.
2. It's not just the printing I have to worry about. This book will also be
an e-book. It has to be because it's about a subject whose intonation
patterns will be crucial, and readers will need to hear them. In fact, since
ASL (American Sign Language of the deaf) is also involved, there'll be lots
of little video clips. So the result has to look good both in print and in a
PDF.
Yes, the fonts were free. Do you know if there's one I could pay for that
would meet my needs? Where would I look? Bear in mind that it's not just any
character set we're talking about. The characters of the International
Phonetic Alphabet are very different from what most people are familiar with.
They include what looks like an upside down 'V', an upside down 'e', both the
'a' like the one I just did and a version that looks more like what people
write by hand (sort of alike an 'o' but with a tail); and there's an 'open o'
(looks like a backwards 'c'), something that looks like an integral sign in
calculus, something that looks like a numeral '3' but hangs below the line,
an 'n' with a tail (for the last consonant of -ing), one that looks like a
capital 'I' but is no taller than a lower case 'i', and lots more.
So where do I go from here?
"Jezebel" wrote:
First, your publisher is *very* unlikely to create the finished book by
photocopying what you supply. Although it's true that a lot of small print
run books (which includes most linguistics texts unless you're a Chomsky
or - god forbid - a Lakoff) are printed by photocopying, the original from
which the photocopy is produced won't simply be a printout of your Word
document.
This is especially true if you create the document using a cruddy font like
Microsoft's Times New Roman. The publisher will likely ask you for the
original Word document, send it on to someone who knows what they're doing,
and leave it to them to fix these format it properly.
That said, the solution is to set your line spacing to an exact amount,
large enough for your phonetic glyphs. Go to Format Style, select
paragraph, and set the line spacing to an exact distance. If you're working
with 11pt text, the auto line spacing will be 13 pt (font size * 120%, to
the nearest half point) -- try increasing this by a point or two. That
should be enough to accommodate the phonetic font you're using. (Did you pay
for this phonetic font, by the way? -- if not, that's probably the cause of
the problem. Free fonts often have lousy metrics.) You'll also need to set
the line-spacing for all the styles that are based on Normal, otherwise
they'll inherit the fixed line spacing.
"Peyton Todd" wrote in message
...
Hello. I expect this will be a tough question to answer.
A little detail first, then I'll get to my question...
I am writing a book in linguistics, and I don't have a publisher yet, but
most tings written in the field tend to be in a font which looks like
Times
New Roman. And I believe lots of publishers nowadays just photocopy what
you
send. So I'm writing the book in Times New Roman.
But I need to include a lot of examples of speech using the International
Phonetic Alphabet. The fonts which come with Word don't have anywhere near
the full set of symbols necessary, but I have found and installed a font
which has everything I need. It's a complicated system involving a program
called KeyMan by Tavelsoft Corp, and virtual 'keyboards', including one
with
IPA symbols in Unicode. (Colleagues have reported getting drafts rejected
by
publishers who didn't have the same plug-in they were using when they
wrote
their book or article.)
Well, the symbols look great, and they're easy to use (different
combinations of keystrokes lead to the desired characters, like typing
Ctrl +
~ and then 'n' to get an n with a tilde over it in Spanish, but a lot
moreso.
But here's my problem. When I stuff some symbols into a line, say as
follows:
asdf asdf asdf asdf xxxx adf asdf asdf afdf
where xxxx is the symbols, the line spacing between that line and the one
before it widens. So all the other lines in the paragraph look fine, both
the
lines before the one I put the symbols in, and the ones below that line,
but
the paragraph looks funny. I can nearly fix this by reducing the fontsize
of
the symbols by a couple of points (e.g. the Times New Roman in 11 pt. and
the
symbols in 9 pt.), but now the symbols look small and silly.
By the way, the symbols are an Arial font. But that's apparently not the
problem. I find it's possible to mix Arial and Times New Roman fonts on a
line without this problem occurring as long as they're all regular
characters.
Any ideas?
everything ihaven't checked with the publisher yet, a linguist, and I need
to write articles
--
Peyton Todd
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