IPA fonts

[Brian]

Dear Carolyn,
    There is no difference between what is necessary for CLAN and what
is necessary for a basic IPA font.  Simply having Arial Unicode is not
enough.  You also have to have a method of telling the keyboard which
of the more than 64,000 characters in Unicode should be bound to which
strokes of which keys.  That is where Keyman comes in.  Think of it as
a new language with non-Roman characters, like Hebrew or Russian.  If
you want to type Russian on an English keyboard in Windows, you have
to not only have a font with Russian characters, but also a way of
telling Windows how to remap the keyboard.

   For IPA, the choice of a particular Unicode font is not too
crucial.   Doulos, Charis, and Arial all cover IPA.  Arial also covers
Chinese, Japanese, and do on, but if all you care about is English and
IPA, then the SIL fonts are fine.  Hopefully you do not have old data,
so you could ignore the discussion of converting from SILIPA93.

On Mac, you also have to have a font and a keyboard, but the
installations are easier and IPAKeys comes with lovely easy
documentation, so it is hard to get lost.

--Brian

On Jan 31, 9:56 pm, Carolyn Chaney <ccha... at sfsu.edu> wrote:
> It certainly does sound way more complicated that my Mac font. I am
> having trouble getting what is necessary for CLAN and what is necessary
> for a basic IPA font.
>
> So if the student has Ariel Uicode, is that enough (plus Charis Sil)?
> Or is Keyman also needed?
>
> The SIL homepage says:  Please note that the  Doulos SIL font and
> Charis SIL font fonts provide Unicode IPA support.  However, you must
> convert existing data using the "SIL IPA93 Fonts" to Unicode before
> using the Doulos SIL or Charis SIL font (see SIL IPA93 Data
> Conversion).
>
> If that is the case, then is Keyman needed?  Or separate unicode?
>
> Sorry to be stupid, but if I can't get it, I am unlikely to get my
> students on board.
>
> CArolyn
>
> On Jan 29, 2008, at 11:35 PM, Brian MacWhinney wrote:
>
> > Dear Carolyn,
> >    I recommend that you take a look at the material regarding this on
> > the CHILDES website at http://childes.psy.cmu.edu/tools/uniwin.html.
> >     You can also get to this info from the homepage using the link
> > called "Unicode and IPA for Windows?
> > It is not enough to just get a font, you need to also install a
> > Keyboard mapping system like Keyman.
> > Good luck with this -- it is not easy.
>
> > --Brian MacWhinney
>
> > On Jan 30, 2008, at 3:57 AM, Carolyn Chaney wrote:
>
> >>  I am teaching phonetics once again, and I'd like a recommendation
> >> for a phonetics font that works on the PC with Vista.  Would Charis
> >> at SIL
> >> be a good one to recommend to my PC using students?
>
> >> Thanks for your help....I am PC illiterate and only speak Mac
> >> fluently.
>
> >> Carolyn Chaney
> >> ccha... at sfsu.edu
>
> >>> "Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious
> >>> life?"
> >>>   --Mary Oliver
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