Re: Line Spacing Question

From: Peyton Todd (PeytonTodd_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 01/24/05 

Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2005 23:47:01 -0800

Thanks, Pat, but I do know about those. They don't even come close to
providing for the International Phonetic Alphabet. I'd show you what I mean,
but of course, I can't type those characters in this document!

"Pat Garard" wrote:

> G'Day Peyton,
>
> In Microsoft Word, you can type accented characters (without
> any other resources) using a simple set of shortcut keys:
>
> à, è, ì, ò, ù, À, È, Ì, Ò, Ù press CTRL+` followed by the letter
> (ACCENT GRAVE)
>
> á, é, í, ó, ú, Á, É, Í, Ó, Ú press CTRL+' followed by the letter
> (APOSTROPHE)
>
> â, ê, î, ô, û, Â, Ê, Î, Ô, Û press CTRL+SHIFT+^ followed by the letter
> (CARET)
>
> ã, ñ, õ, Ã, Ñ, Õ press CTRL+SHIFT+~ followed by the letter
> (TILDE)
>
> ä, ë, ï, ö, ü, Ä, Ë, Ï, Ö, Ü press CTRL+SHIFT+: followed by the letter
> (COLON)
>
> ç, Ç press CTRL+, followed by c or C
> (COMMA)
>
> å, Å press CTRL+SHIFT+@ followed by a or A
>
> ß press CTRL+SHIFT+& followed by s
>
> ¿ press ALT+CTRL+SHIFT+?
>
> ¡ press ALT+CTRL+SHIFT+!
>
> As you can see, the symbol set is more than adequate even
> for this NEWSREADER.
>
> See also:
> http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/itc/resources/mswordpc.html
> http://www.chumashlanguage.com/symbols/sym-00-tx.html
> --
> Regards,
> Pat Garard
> Melbourne, Australia
> _______________________
>
> "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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