Ipa fonts

[tjbryant at comdis.umass.edu]

Hi all,

I would like to thank everyone for their responses to my question on getting teh
SIL fonts to work on my MAC (OSX) computers.  Below I list
all the possibilities offered.  I have not tried any of them yet, but I will
send an email detailing the best solution to my problem.

Best,
Tim Bryant
University of New Hampshire
1. Kenneth Hyde

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.

2. Brian MacWhinney

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.?
?



3. Shelley Velleman

You have to use an older version of Word.  I use Word 10.0 when I  ?
need to use my fonts.?


4. John Grinstead

Same for PowerPoint, Tim. SIL fonts will work on v. X of Microsoft ?
Office, as Shelley said, but not on the newest version of Microsoft ?
Office.?
?
It is possible to run both versions of the Office programs on 1 Mac, ?
and other than this problem, the two versions of Power Point and Word ?
seem to be pretty compatible.?
?
saludos,?
?
John