You seem to have two separate problems; the first being that your phonetic font prints narrower than it appears on screen, and the second being how to replace it. Presumably you would not be considering the nightmare job of replacing it if you could get it to print decently.
So how are you trying to print it? what printer are you using, and what layout or word processor program are you using. A second question is what sort of typeface is Mac the Linguist? a bitmap one, a Type-1 or Type-3 Postscript face or something else? Have you tried printing to different types of printer?
My reason for asking is that, on early Mac Laser printer-drivers (and possibly on later ones). there was an ability to scale Bitmap typefaces to make them look better. If this is happening, and if it is doing this to your phonetic face but not your Type-1 Palatino, this could be causing the unsightly gap. If so, switching that option off or printing to an inkjet instead of a laser printer might cure it.
regards AlanD
On Thursday, Jun 26, 2003, at 11:49 Europe/London, Aubrey Nunes wrote:
Hi folks
Can anyone suggest a fix for this weird bug? My thesis (in phonology - how
the sound systems of languages are organised) contains perhaps 5000 single
words shown in phonetics � conventionally in either slashes or square
brackets, according to the usage, in Mac the Linguist, a font I have had
since 1989 I think.
The bug is that when the text is printed, Mac the Linguist compresses itself
by about 15 percent, leading to a gap on the right between the rightmost
character in phonetics and whatever is used to close the entry, either a
square bracket or a slash.
Mac the Linguist has its own set of conventions of combination key strokes
for diacritics and characters with no alaphabetic equivalent. Other fonts
probably adopt a different set of conventions. To match my standard 12 point
Palatino the Mac the Linguist entries have to be set to 10 point and bold.
Mac the Linguist seems to have disappeared. It doesn't seem to System X compliant.
Does anyone know of a way of programming a replacement by another phonetics
font throughout the whole document?
Aubrey
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