using half width space in an interlinear example

[Ian Hodgson]

Hi folks. I have an interlinear example whereby the first 2 words are glossed as a single word in English. See image belowː

Ignore the brackets - they are to show conceptual semantic structure. By  using a half width space between the first 2 words, çaom lɑːŋ, and converting both interlinear lines to word elements, the words do line up correctly in the published pdf. I just want to get rid of the box between çaom and lɑːŋ. Is this just a font issue? Will it be resolved if I set lang data elements to Charis SIL? (maybe they already are, I'm not sure yet where to check this).

Thanks for your help.

Ian

[Bruce Cox]

It looks like a font issue and presumably will be resolved if you set langdata elements to use a font that includes the unicode character you are using. If that character is THIN SPACE U+2009, Charis SIL includes it. (But so does Time New Roman, which might be the default if you haven't otherwise set it.)

The langdata element font can be set in the languages element below the References.

Cheers, bruce

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Yes, anytime you see those rectangles it indicates that the font being used does not have a "glyph" for that character (i.e., it does not have a way to render that character).  Section 5.3.8 "Multi-word units" in the XLingPaper user documentation discusses a way to get what you want using non-breaking spaces.

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