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Re: HELP: Drawing Arcs

From:And Rosta <a.rosta@...>
Date:Wednesday, December 8, 2004, 22:11
David Peterson:
> Huh. I typed "arc pair grammar" into Google, and the first hit > was a conlang message about how there should be an encyclopedia > entry for arc pair grammar. Guess that effort failed...?
The writer of the hypothetical article would have to understand Arc Pair Grammar. AFAIK, nobody but Postal ever did...
> Anyway, I'm creating a grammar for Kamakawi right now that's > borrowing bits from David Perlmutter and Paul Postal's work, as > well as a theory I was recently introduced to on discourse analysis. > In order to put it up somewhere, though, I have to be able to draw > arcs (preferably with arrows on the end). I've been fruitless in all > my endeavors. I can't do it with any of the drawing tools on my > word processor's painting program, and trying to find font pictures > of arcs has also proven useless (and time-consuming). > > I've been trying to find a picture of one of the "trees" (I forget what > they're called) for RG,
"igloos" (don't know whether that's official RG, or just linguist slang).
> As you can see, these arrows are extremely malleable, yet they come out > looking nice and smooth. Does anyone know of a font that has arrows > like these, or how one can draw them aside from freehand? I'd be > extremely appreciative.
Word 2000 (of which I'm very fond, even tho it is a Microsoft product) can do them. Search for "add a curve" in the built-in help; or go to the Drawing toolbar, choose autoshapes, and then choose curve. To get the arrowhead you format the line to choose an arrowheaded line. I know Word Perfect can do them too, but I've never used modern Word Perfect myself. --And.