IPA symbols in Garamond

[John Mansfield]

Maybe not a helpful suggestion but ... if you can move your text into
InDesign, it generally gives much better control over fonts and other
styling parameters.

j

On 29 August 2011 09:27, Aidan Wilson <aidan.wilson at unimelb.edu.au> wrote:

> Oops, I was wrong. Gentium DOES have the IPA characters. Word was just
> doing that thing where IT decides what fonts you want to use.
>
> Anyone know how to turn that off? So Word does what I tell it and not what
> it thinks I want to do?
>
>
> --
> Aidan Wilson
>
> PhD Candidate
> Dept of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics
> The University of Melbourne
>
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> aidan.wilson at unimelb.edu.au
>
> On Mon, 29 Aug 2011, Aidan Wilson wrote:
>
>  I had a look at this, but it doesn't appear to have all of the IPA
>> symbols. Using this font and SIL's mac keyboard to insert a unicode symbol,
>> the font reverts to that microsoft sans or whatever that horrible looking
>> thing is. Trying to change it back (by, say, selecting a whole chunk of text
>> and changing the font) just skips the symbols.
>>
>> I'm using symbols like ɣ, ə, ɳ, ŋ, ɲ, ɭ, ɹ, ʈ, n̪, (can you guess the
>> language family?) and I also prefer using Garamond where possible, so this
>> Gentium thing excited me a little. Unfortunately it won't work, and also, it
>> doesn't look much like Garamond if you ask me.
>>
>>
>>
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