Phonetic Guide

[BruceMellen]

I'm finding that some of the Ruby text appears compressed on some base text,
and not for other base text I'm making guides for. I happen to be making
PinYin guides for traditional Chinese characters, and the PinYin is with tone
marks. There appears no pattern as to which guides get compressed and which
do not. I have chosen Centered, Arial Unicode MS, 1pt offset, 12 pt size
consistently, and the base text characters in the document appear all the
same font/size. I can send a short document to show the problem.

 

[Klaus Linke]

I'm finding that some of the Ruby text appears compressed on some
base text, and not for other base text I'm making guides for.
I happen to be making PinYin guides for traditional Chinese characters,
and the PinYin is with tone marks. There appears no pattern as to which
guides get compressed and which do not. I have chosen Centered,
Arial Unicode MS, 1pt offset, 12 pt size consistently, and the base text
characters in the document appear all the same font/size. I can send a
short document to show the problem.

Hi Bruce,

You'll probably have to look at the field codes (Alt+F9), and figure out why
some of the Ruby text looks differently.

If you want, you can mail me a sample ([email protected]), but an answer
might take some while (if I find it at all).

Regards,
Klaus

 

[BruceMellen]

It seems that a (horizontal) spacing of 75% has been applied to some
of the Ruby text.

You should be able to get rid of it if you select all (Ctrl+A), open
"Format > Font", Character spacing tab, and set the "Scale" to 100%.

I will write a suggestion to Microsoft that they should use a
character style (say named "Ruby text") for the Ruby text, so you can
quickly change the scale and all other formatting easily through the
style.

Good luck with your Chinese studies!
Klaus

 

[BruceMellen]

If it makes a difference…I am setting up the words shown below, within table
cells and then pasting them where they belong later. No matter how many
times I select the word within the original table, change its font/size and
re-specify its ruby text and settings, it remains either compressed or not.

I do notice that when I “print†the document using CutePDFwriter, that they
all come out uncompressed.

AND I’m ALSO having another problem changing font size withing my final
documents without WORD properly maintaining the ruby Offset setting.

……Bruce Mellen