design problem: fonts and spacing

[Phil Davis]

Charles -

One thing you can do (which I'm doing for text in cross-platform 
training screens) is to set up your text on your platform of choice in 
your font of choice, then snapshot it. In the stack you distribute, show 
images only, not actual text. It'll display perfectly, guaranteed, 
without any consideration of whether or not the target machine has your 
particular fonts installed.

FWIW -
Phil Davis


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?
> 
> Charles Hartman
> Professor of English, Poet in Residence
> Connecticut College
> charles.hartman at conncoll.edu
> *the Scandroid* is at cherry.conncoll.edu/cohar/Programs
> 
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