design problem: fonts and spacing

[Stephen Barncard]

Your display will not view like you want unless you use a monospaced 
font such as Courier, Monaco or Tahoma.   Verdana, maybe, I'm not 
sure.

Palatino is a proportional font. Courier can be ugly, I don't use it 
myself except for code.


>
>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