Finally -- the Quapaw sketch.

[Marino]

Congratulations!  Mary

At 05:23 PM 1/13/2005, you wrote:
>I received my freebie copies of +AF8-Native Languages of the Southeastern
>United States+AF8- from the
>Nebraska Press in the mail today and was relieved to see that they did a
>pretty
>fair job of reproducing my Quapaw grammar sketch manuscript.  Thus far the
>only
>errors I've caught are in the listing of the vowel inventory.  The problem
>there
>seems to be due to the fact that Microsoft Word appears to randomly destroy
>horizontal tabular formatting when identical files with identical
>templates are displayed
>on two different computers (I'm sure most of you have experience with THAT.)
>
>So the Quapaw oral vowel +ACI-triangle+ACI- came out as a vowel
>+ACI-diamond+ACI- when they set
>the type.  It should be:
>
>i
>
>e                     o
>
>           a
>
>. . . but it came out as:
>
>           i
>
>e                     o
>
>          a
>
>Likewise the nasal vowels lost tabular formatting.  They should display as:
>
>iN
>
>                    oN
>
>         aN
>
>. . . but they emerged as a vertical column:
>
>iN
>
>oN
>
>aN
>
>So if anyone buys or checks out this volume, you might want to make those
>minor
>corrections.
>
>At least the sketch is finally out, and a lot is now in print that I've
>wanted to
>get out for over 10 years.
>
>Bob
>
>