Spacing words on a line in Pages

Hi Everyone,
I have a bit of problem. I was obliged to move from Word to Pages because I needed to work with Tibetan font as well as English, and since ultimately the work will probably be published in some form I need to use a Unicode font (not as yet supported by Microsoft, I believe). The only stable way to make pages of Tibetan text interleaved with English commentary and translation is (so far as I know) in Pages. So that's great.
However, when I make a line of transcription (writing in English the way the Tibetan sounds), I also write below that the exact word-for-word translation. I have to use the TAB key to line up these words on the two lines. Words, of course, are of different lengths, and with TABS the applications (Pages or Word) have their own way of systematising which causes the gaps to be hugely variable. I cannot specify an amount of space that I would like to appear between words, with the end of that space marking the next tab stop, but that is what I would like to do. Still with me? Sometimes I have to use the space bar, but since the fonts in the transcription line and the translation line are in different sizes, they don't line up well.
Is there a way round this? Please don't suggest setting the TABS. I did try that and it was horrible.
Thanks.
Ruth
iMac (Intel) Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Hi Magnus,
Of course, I should have said in my original post that I had to use an OSX application because I only work on a Mac. And it has to be a Unicode font because they are the only ones that will form glyphs properly at different sizes. XenoType at http://www.xenotypetech.com/ make the only unicode font for Macs, and Pages is the only application that I've been told of where you can run it without problems.
There has been a lot of progress in recent years enabling the writing of Tibetan in word processing programs but the greater part of that work has been on the Windows platform. However, you are right that NeoOffice may now be able to handle Tibetan but that is a very recent happening, while Microsoft Office for Mac does not support Unicode. So I can input other Tibetan fonts but some of the glyphs will be badly formed.
Actually, I can't see why you would want to use something like Furigama to store text in, not least because Pages is perfect for simply writing Tibetan. TextEdit isn't bad either but interleaving with English etc I didn't find very smooth. In fact I don't find it very smooth in Pages, and my workaround is to write the English parts mostly in MSWord and copy them across because then I can use all those short keys that make life so much easier!
You can get a free keyboard for typing in Wylie from Chris Walker at http://www.tibetanportal.com/ which is a doddle to use - you still need a font though.
I don't think I am going to get a solution to this problem in Pages. Maybe another application will do something soon - or maybe they won't. In the meantime I have to get the work done. Thanks for the interesting links, by the way.
All the best
Ruth
I have run into similar problems, but I have never
fought enough to find a good solution. Some of the
things you could try though are first to look at
http://homepage.mac.com/thgewecke/mlingos9.html#otherl
for resources about Tibetan and the Mac.
I think MS Office and NeoOffice both handle Tibetan
if you only find a keyboard for it. I can paste
Tibetan text in both anyhow.
Both MS Office and NeoOffice have support for furigana/
phonetic guides, if you activate support for
Asiatic languages. (Pages does not have this yet, but
it is my secret dream that they will get it in some
future version.)
You could consider using furigana to store text in
one of the languages. The implementation is a little
clumsy, so I recommend you to try it out thoroughly
before you type a lot of text in it. It can be tricky
to change the formatting.
PowerBook G4 Mac OS X (10.4)

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