<span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode","sans-serif"" lang="NL"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">I usually recommend Lucida Sans Unicode to my students for IPA. On my version of Microsoft Word, this font does have an italicized [a] (if you can see it, it looks like <</span></span><i style><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode","sans-serif"" lang="NL">a></span></i><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:georgia,serif" lang="NL">) as well as an italicized ash</span><i style><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode","sans-serif"" lang="NL"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"> </span></span></i><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode","sans-serif"" lang="NL"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">(</span></span><i style><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode","sans-serif"" lang="NL">æ</span></i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode","sans-serif"" lang="NL"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">)</span></span>.<br>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 7:10 AM, Peter Kahrel <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kahrel@kahrel.plus.com">kahrel@kahrel.plus.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Andrew,<br>
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A surprise indeed, I hadn't realised that those new Microsoft fonts had those sets, thanks for pointing that out. And proper italics, too. But Don's problem of the slanted a remains because it doesn't have a Unicode position.<div class="HOEnZb">
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On 01.03.2012 12:56, Spencer, Andrew J wrote:<br>
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Don, Peter,<br>
<br>
Having recommended Charis SIL to students and colleagues I discovered<br>
the Unicode-related problems Don mentions, including the problem of<br>
slanted/italic 'ash' (æ), which comes out as italic oe ligature (œ).<br>
<br>
Somewhat to my surprise, I find that MicroSoft's recent font Cambria<br>
has rather better IPA support, at least in this respect. It provides<br>
slanted versions for the complete IPA character set, including<br>
superscripts such as aspiration. Has anyone encountered any problems<br>
with Cambria IPA that I'm unaware of?<br>
<br>
Of course, the other alternative is to use LaTeX with the TIPA<br>
package. I can put all the IPA symbols into slanted mode provided I<br>
use a supported font (Times New Roman - it doesn't necessarily work<br>
with other fonts), and XeTeX users can presumably just input Cambria<br>
if they want. However, LaTeX doesn't help if you need to share files<br>
with non-LaTeX users, of course.<br>
<br>
<br>
Andrew<br>
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Subject: Re: Font-related problem for linguists<br>
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Don,<br>
<br>
Not a silly question at all: it's a common problem. The trouble is that<br>
a and its 'slanted' equivalent have no Unicode position. Charis's<br>
behaviour to italicise a as a slanted is an annoying feature, but<br>
designed and expected. You should appeal to the Unicode consortium<br>
(<a href="http://www.unicode.org" target="_blank">www.unicode.org</a>), not to SIL, so that type foundries (such as SIL) can<br>
place the character somewhere. (Such a request should be pending but it<br>
won't harm if you remind the consortium: the more requests, the quicker<br>
the fix.)<br>
<br>
As you said, in the meantime you can create a font with a and its<br>
slanted equivalent (if you know how). Use that for your own purposes.<br>
Use a position from the Private Use range, say E000. Then when you<br>
submit a text for publication, tell the editor that E000 represents a<br>
and its slanted version, and give them your font. If the typesetters<br>
can't deal with that, the publisher should find someone else.<br>
<br>
Peter<br>
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