Re: PDF correction?

Thanks to Eric and David for your comments. On reviewing the doc., I see
that indeed the odd chars. appear only in the footnotes (though the font
there is not visibly different). On balance, this isn't worth bothering
with, as it's become clear what they represent, and there are fewer than 10
instances in a 34pp document.

I did discover a list of fonts used -- Lucida Grande (never heard of it) and
Times New Roman.

David suggested I download it-- that can only be done as a pdf or as txt,
where I suspect ALL the IPA would be lost; again, it's not worth bothering
with. Maybe when I have several idle moments to experiment..... And I only
have Adobe reader AFAIK, no editing stuff. In order to correct my own pdfs,
I have to correct the original OO doc, then re-save as pdf., no big deal. At
least I haven't had problems with odd chars. not showing up properly; even
my Gwr font came through unscathed.

The paper appeared in a book publ. in 1995, so was surely written several
months to a year or more before then; Adobe/pdf was probably a little
primitive in those days (if it existed at all), and I doubt good Unicode
support was widely available; it's likely the author just renamed the old
file "XXXX Version 2007" and sent it along. I should be glad he still had a
copy!! because inter-library loan is difficult (and costs money grrr!) here
in the boondocks.

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