Re: Re: Unexpected spaces with subscript chrs in postscript output

On Saturday 15 September 2007, watchsask wrote:
&gt; --- In PageStreamSupport%40yahoogroups.com">PageStreamSupportyahoogroups.com, Anthony Hoffman <ahoffman...>
wrote:
> > Received from watchsask on 15/09/2007
> >
>; > Hi Ernest and everyone.
> >
>; > > There is definitely something awry with your kerning and tracking
> > > settings or with the fonts that is causing your subscript spacing
> > > problem.
> >
>; > I began with removing the #?.pfb files and altering my prefs to match
&gt; > yours, to no avail.
&gt;
> I admit I didn't actually try and duplicate your problem
>
> > Then I started looking more at the fonts as you suggested. I was using
&gt; > the fonts provided with PageStream4, but noticed in the font selector
> > that there was 3 duplicates of many fonts in the list, i.e. Triumvirate -
> > Normal (the standard sans-serif font I use), was listed three times.
&gt; >
>; > Turns out that in the font prefs list, I had included the drawer
&gt; > Fonts:_bullet_oulines for some unknown reason.
> > To cut a long story short, I removed that and now I see only one of each
>; > font in the font list, as expected, and the intermittent subscript
> > spacing problem seems to be cured!
&gt;
> Yes, _bullet_outlines -- that's one I didn't think of. Good show. Those
&gt; will not be the same font design. Causes me to wonder how well the opposite
> would work -- substituting the pagestream intellifonts for those that
>; came with the OS. I suspect some of the character positions might not
> match.
&gt;
> It's probably still a good idea to eliminate the #?.pfb files so they
>; will be renewed as there may be some faulty #?.pfb encoding owing to
> the presence of the system intellifonts.
>
> > What a relief that is, many thanks for everyone's help and suggestions,
> > particularly Ernest. It's great to know there are many such
>; > knowledgeable PageStream users willing to offer much friendly advice.
> >
>; >
>; > Last silly question of the day:
>; > Is there a British language dictionary available for PageStream4?
> > We use British English in New Zealand, so it would be a little nicer if
> > I could spellcheck using the correct dictionary, though the current
> > American English one I'm using generally does the job.
>;
> Can't help you as I haven't actually looked for that one. Check the
> Pagestream web site for sure. If I were still working for the newspaper
> I would want a customized Canadian Press dictionary, which leans toward
&gt; the British but has some of its own conventions.
>
> Perhaps there could be some information released (perhaps it already is)
> or a utility made available to create a customized dictionary.

You can create customized dictionaries, but right below "American" in the
language drop down I see "British". (I went to the menu Edit/Check
Spelling...) Admittedly I'm using the linux version, not Amiga, but I suspect
it is included there as well.

Tim Doty

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Received from Tim Doty on 15/09/2007

> You can create customized dictionaries, but right below "American" in
> the language drop down I see "British". (I went to the menu Edit/Check
> Spelling...) Admittedly I'm using the linux version, not Amiga, but I
> suspect it is included there as well.

Hi Tim,
As you mentioned, various language options were selectable, but when I
tried spellchecking with them, it would flag every word as an error.

Turns out that only the American language dictionary is supplied as
standard, so while you can select other languages, you can't spellcheck
them.

As Ernest mentioned, I located the British language dictionary from the
downloads section of pagestream.org and it all appears to be working OK.

Interestingly, you can assign a different language to different blocks
of text within the same document. Would be very useful if you were
publishing a document which contained text in different languages.

Thanks,
Anthony.

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