New SIL Unicode IPA font and input method

[Brian MacWhinney]

Dear Info-CHILDES,
  It is now possible to enter Unicode IPA in CLAN using the newly developed
SILIPA Unicode font from the Summer Institute of Linguistics.  The current
restrictions are:
1. This only works on Windows 2000/NT.  It might work on XP.
2.  The input method only works in Word or Wordpad, not yet with CLAN.  So
you have to edit in Word and then output to CHAT format.
3.  Files must be saved as UTF-8 to work in CLAN.  The instructions explain
this.
4.  The CLAN Output window will display Unicode, but the Commands window
will look funny for +s strings.  However, they will work.
5.  The current input method is a bit crude.  Peter Constable at SIL is now
implementing the nice IPAPhon input method from Hank Rogers at Toronto.  I
will include this in the package once it is available.

The materials can be downloaded from the SILIPA link at
http://childes.psy.cmu.edu/html/wintools.html

This set-up will improve in the next months, but it is now basically
useable.

Good luck.

--Brian MacWhinney