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From: acli@byron.net4.io.org (Ambrose Li)
Subject: comp.fonts IPA-MiniFAQ (was: Re: Windows Font of IPA system?)
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Date: Wed, 20 Dec 1995 17:45:35 GMT
References: <19951220.010004.00158001@ACCTON.COM.TW>
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In article <19951220.010004.00158001@ACCTON.COM.TW>,
 <ZHONG@ACCTON.COM.TW> wrote:
>     S. K. Cheng of Hong Kong (hk.hku.hkusua!u9221037) ~{0"7I~} asks
>whether there is a Windows font for the International Phonetic
>Alphabet.  It would be interesting to see how this can be
>implemented.

The following article was written with comp.fonts in mind, so references
to "this group" or such refer to comp.fonts, not sci.lang.

Of course, only the Windows portions are relevant, and I think super-
imposition works properly only with the monospaced font.

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This article contains excerpts from two of this groups' FAQs:

-  the "Finding Fonts for Internationalization FAQ", which is not
   supposed to expire till the end of the month (complain to your
   news admin if it already expired), and

-  the comp.font FAQ itself, which has not been posted for a while,
   but still accessible by Web at <http://jasper.ora.com> or by ftp
   at jasper.ora.com:/pub/comp.font/FAQ.

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From the "Finding Fonts for Internationalization FAQ":

   5. MS-Windows

   [...]

   IPA International Phonetic Alphabet fonts
   ftp.sil.org will get you to the Summer Institute of Linguistics, who
   have IPA fonts in both T1 and TT.

   [...]

   6.1 Adobe PS fonts
   6.1.1 IPA Adobe Type1
   * IPA fonts can be found on ftp://ftp.sil.org

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From the comp.font FAQ, section 1a, subject 1.10, "What about fonts with
the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) symbols?":

   I summarized Scott Brumage's recent post for the FAQ:

   Shareware or free (PostScript Type 1 and/or TrueType):
   ======================================================

     * TechPhon

       Seems to lack some characters and has no zero-offset characters
       (for accents).

     * PalPhon

       A phonetic font which you can get by anonymous ftp from
       mac.archive.umich.edu.  It is called PalPhon. There are actually
       two fonts: the basic PalPhon and one with additional accents and
       symbols called PalPi. The package includes some documents on using
       the fonts as well.

     * SIL-IPA

       SIL-IPA is a set of scalable IPA fonts containing the full
       International Phonetic Alphabet with 1990 Kiel revisions. Three
       typefaces are included:

	  * SIL Doulos (similar to Times)

	  * SIL Sophia (similar to Helvetica)

	  * SIL Manuscript (monowidth)

       Each font contains all the standard IPA discrete characters and
       non-spacing diacritics as well as some suprasegmental and
       puncuation marks. Each font comes in both PostScript Type 1 and
       TrueType formats.  The fonts are also available for Microsoft
       Windows.

       These fonts were designed by the Printing Arts Department of the
       Summer Institute of Linguistics, Dallas, Texas.

       [My (Ambrose's) note: These fonts don't seem to work very well
       with ghostscript. SIL Manuscript will work in ghostscript 2.61,
       SIL Doulos will work if you have ghostscript 3.33, but SIL
       Sophia never worked for me. I don't have any other ghostscript
       versions to test.]

   Shareware or free (TeX):
   ========================

   METAFONT sources of the phonetic symbols developed by
   Tokyo-Shoseki-Printing and Sanseido are available.  The font contains
   all of IPA (Internatioanl Phonetic Alphabet) symbols.

   You can get phonetic symbols METAFONT (named TSIPA) from

   ftp.foretune.co.jp:/pub/tools/TeX/Fonts

   The IP address for ftp.foretune.co.jp is 133.123.1.2.

   Commercial:
   ===========

   Linguist's Software Adobe (ITC Stone Phonetic [#255], Times Phonetic
   [#278])

-- 
Ambrose C. Li ~{@h>tHY~}       ~  byron is my Linux box; io.org is my
                               ~ `Internet service bureau', not where
<@io.org:acli@byron.net4>      ~  I work. MS Windows will not become
<ai337@freenet.toronto.on.ca>  ~  the OS standard; Linux will be there.
