Re: Line Spacing Question

From: Suzanne S. Barnhill (sbarnhill_at_mvps.org)
Date: 01/24/05 

Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 09:43:44 -0600

To add to what the others have said, I would suggest that you first look at
the Latin Extended A and B and IPA Extensions character subsets of Times New
Roman in Insert | Symbol. There are, as Pat has pointed out, built-in
keyboard shortcuts for many of these characters, and you can assign your own
for any character. If these are not sufficient to your needs, then look at
the Arial Unicode MS font (it comes with Windows but may not be installed).
I think you'll find its IPA Extensions include everything you could possibly
need. There is no reason you couldn't type your entire document in this
font, which your publisher is also bound to have. 

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
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"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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