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
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
*the Scandroid* is at cherry.conncoll.edu/cohar/Programs
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