I need to create feature brackets for work in linguistics. As an example, consider the following:
[ +CORONAL ] [ -distributed ] [ +voice ] Above is an example showing three items. The actual number if items may be as many as a dozen or as few as one. And here in e-mail-land I had to use individual brackets around the items. In the real world I need one tall bracket on each side that encompasses all the items. I can do this with a formula. There is a document at web.pdx.edu/~johj/ that shows an example and how to do it with a formula. The problem is aligning the items in the formula to the rest of the text on the page. Normally a complete rule would look like this: [ +CORONAL ] [ -distributed ] → [ -voice ] / __ [ +CORONAL ] [ +voice ] [ +distributed ] And notice that the brackets on the right had to be stuck unaligned because of the constraints of e-mail-land. In the real world the two-item bracket also needs to be centered vertically with the text in the middle. I have seen people do this in Word using a table. Just now I tried to create a formula like the above in a table, but I couldn't get the items to appear on successive cells. So far the best solution I have found is to set a grid on the page and align the formulas with the grid. It's time-consuming and imprecise. Can anyone suggest a different methodology that might work better? --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
