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In article <HEMPHILL.92Oct21133930@lingua.csc.ti.com>, hemphill@lingua.csc.ti.com (Charles Hemphill) writes:
> In article <mdj.719626829@munagin> mdj@mullian.ee.mu.OZ.AU (matthew douglas james) writes:
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>    Do they exist (IPA fonts that is) ?
> 
>    If so what software/word processor do they exist for, and where
>    can I find them ??
> 
>    Thanks
> 
>    Matthew James
> 
> I recommend the WSU fonts described below.
> 
> -Charles
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> From: gyp@csadfa.oz (Patrick Tang)
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> Subject: Re: TEX/LATEX font(s) for Phonetic Alphabet
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>>From article <868@wacsvax.OZ>, by marke@wacsvax.OZ (Mark Ellison):
>> Does anybody know anything about fonts for linguistic symbols (such as
>> `eng', `schwa', etc.) for tex/latex? For money or not.
>> I can't go on pretending that \epsilon is schwa or that jn is a palatal
>> nasal. What's worse is trying to persuade other people to pretend it too.
>> 
> Well, I got a reply from the following when I ask the same question
> a while back, I am still waiting for them to send the tape for
> me (MONTHS already!!), sorry if this is a bit long.....
> 
> ---
> \documentstyle{article}
> \begin{document}
> 
> \section{International Phonetic Alphabet}
> 
> \subsection{Washington State University}
> 
> Dean Guenther informs me (June 22, 1988) that Washington State
> University has an IPA font available. It contains 128 popular IPA
> characters and diacritics as specified in the {\em Phonetic Symbol Guide\/} by
> Geoffrey K.~Pullum and William A.~Ladusaw (Chicago, London, 1986).
> Janene Winter did the MF work on this font.  The character positions
> were coordinated with help from Helmut Feldweg at the
> Max-Planck-Institut f\"{u}r Psycholinguistik in the Netherlands,
> Christina Thiele at Carleton University and some ideas from Brian
> MacWhinney at Carnegie Mellon and Karen Mullen at the University of
                                                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Kentucky at Louisville.
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

What??!!  *shudder*  UK is not in Louisville.  The above should either 
read "...Karen Mullen at the University of Louisville." or " ...Karen 
Mullen at the University of Kentucky at Lexington."

(Sorry guys, just couldn't let it pass without saying something.}

Dawn

