Re: Line Spacing Question

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From: Jezebel (madbastard_at_whitehouse.gov)
Date: 01/24/05 

Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 17:45:45 +1100

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" <PeytonTodd@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:93AFA0BA-5252-4FBF-84E5-C8E306E73916@microsoft.com...
> 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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