Digest for info-childes at googlegroups.com - 2 Messages in 1 Topic

[Damir Cavar]

Hi there,

All the current operating systems support IPA and extensions natively,
including Mac OS X, Linux distributions and Windows 7. In OS X you can
go to the Finder Menu (the Apple) into System Preferences... and there
select Language & Text in the upper icon list. In Language & Text select
Input Sources and activate for example Keyboard & Character Viewer and
at the bottom "Show input menu in menu bar". This will show you a flag
for your selected keyboard in the upper right menu bar of the Finder. If
you select this, you can for example switch keyboard layouts, if you
have selected some of them, and you can in particular select "Show
Character Viewer". This will give you the full font inventory on your
Mac. Note that the new operating systems have usually installed a full
set of Unicode fonts. If you select any of the characters in the
Character Viewer, it will be pasted in Word, or any other editor or
program you use.

Same functionalities exist in Windows 7. Look under Start > All Programs
> Accessories > System (or something like this, can't check, do not have
one around right now). Also, on common Linux distros you will find
similar possibilities, and you can use them in OpenOffice or alternative
Office distributions.

Sincerely
Damir


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>   * phonetic symbols in Word For Mac 2011 <#group_thread_0> [2 Updates]
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>  phonetic symbols in Word For Mac 2011
> <http://groups.google.com/group/info-childes/t/8de48c2a3ff11905>
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>     "Caroline Bowen" <cbowen at ihug.com.au> Apr 11 09:05AM +1000  
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>     Dear Info-CHILDES,
>      
>     Neither Apple nor Microsoft have been able to help me with a
>     problem I have
>     with phonetic fonts. I have an old PC that I have had since 2009,
>     and a new
>     Mac. The PC has Office 2007 running Word 2007, and the MacBook Pro has
>     Office For Mac 2011.
>      
>     The difficulty I have is with the Mac. In Word For Mac 2011 there
>     is no
>     provision to insert DoulosSIL fonts from a dropdown menu like the
>     one in
>     Word 2007. I have downloaded the DoulosSIL font family, and they work
>     perfectly on the Mac (e.g., if I open a document created on the PC).
>      
>     Have you encountered this problem, and do you have any idea how to
>     configure
>     Word For Mac 2011 to do the Insert > Symbol manoeuvre with the
>     phonetic
>     fonts, including diacritics?
>      
>     Alternatively, how do you make Word For Mac 2011 "do" phonetics?
>      
>     Best wishes,
>     Caroline
>
>      
>
>     Yvan Rose <yrose at mun.ca> Apr 10 08:44PM -0230  
>
>     Dear Caroline,
>     I am not sure whether you can 'fix' Word, as my experience with it
>     is limited. However, I offer two nice solutions below which you
>     may want to explore:
>      
>     1) Brian Hall's IPA Palette, a nice (free) IPA input utility,
>     available through CHILDES and described at the following address:
>      
>     http://childes.psy.cmu.edu/tools/unimac.html
>      
>     2) PopChar, an excellent (paid) application to insert symbols from
>     any of the fonts installed on your system, whichever the
>     application you are using:
>      
>     http://www.ergonis.com/products/popcharx/
>      
>     I hope you find (some of) this useful.
>      
>     With best regards,
>     Yvan
>


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