ipa fontsw

[Brian MacWhinney]

Dear Kenneth et al.,
    The behavior of older non-Unicode fonts under OSX is at least  
partially dependent on the application
involved.  In some cases, you can get the older fonts to work by  
using old versions of older programs
under Classic.  Of course, these solutions are becoming more and more  
fragile and the relevant supports
start to erode.  SIL makes some nice Unicode IPA fonts available.   
See http://childes.psy.cmu.edu/tools/fonts.html
for the relevant pointers.  These fonts are complete enough that you  
will not have to use the character palette to
add things.  Also, you may want to make use of the IPAKeys utility,  
as described at
http://childes.psy.cmu.edu/tools/ipamac.html
These and other pages at the CHILDES site have a lot of material on  
these issues.

--Brian MacWhinney

On Dec 6, 2006, at 9:12 AM, Kenneth Hyde wrote:

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> On 6 Dec, 2006, at 8:12 AM, tjbryant at comdis.umass.edu wrote:
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>> I am having trouble getting my SIL fonts to work on my Mac  
>> computer. Can anyone
>> give me some pointers?  I am running OSX.
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> As far as I have been able to determine, the SIL IPA font families  
> no longer work on Mac.  I have OSX and have had to switch to a  
> different IPA font (IPA Phon, which is available on the LINGUIST  
> font source page, iirc).  Of course, OSX also supports unicode, so  
> you can use the character palette to add the occasional IPA character.
>
> Ken
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> Kenneth Hyde
> ELI & Dept of Linguistics
> University of Delaware
> kenny at udel.edu
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> "No matter how subtle the wizard, a knife between the shoulders  
> will seriously cramp his style.—K. Z. Steven Brust
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