Half-width Pinyin, Mac OS X

Hi,

I am learning Chinese and using Studycard Studio Lite 2.5 (see
www.digitalmeadow.com) on my little Z22 Palm to learn characters and
phrases from Studycard-made "flashcards" produced on my Mac (with Mac OS
X Tiger).

I am able to make flash-card sets pretty well using Studycard,
except I have slight annoyance with fonts. The Chinese+Pinyin+Latin
fonts that work properly *in Studycard Studio* are Kai, Hei, STFangsong,
STHeiti, STKaiti and STSong. (Others have the all-important pinyin
pronunciation characters absent.)

In the rest of the Mac system, the fonts all work fine. The Pinyin
is "half-width" like normal Latin characters. But in Studycard lite,
they become double-width. Using normal Latin characters in place of
the pinyin ones, it looks like this:

n i ngm e ng-j i pi a n
[lemon chicken]

So far I've coped with double-width pinyin characters; got used to
reading it with the weird spacing. My problem is that, as I learn
bigger chinese phrases, the double-width pinyin starts to take up a lot
of the flash card. I don't want to reduce the font size, because then I
can't see the accent marks over the pinyin pronunciation.

I have spent hours experimenting with different fonts on my system,
and more hours, trawling the web for answers and fonts etc, but to no avail.

Has anyone else had this problem?! Is there a work-around?

Please advise!

With kind regards,

Shan Da
.

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