SIL Not Recommending SILDoulos IPA93 Now (fwd)

[Rankin, Robert L]

Somewhere someone MUST have developed a program you can plug your input and output symbols into and automate this process!  SIL CC (Consistent Changes) was supposed to do that, but we've never found anyone who can make it work.  I can't imagine that, with all the fully-fledged geeks out there, nobody has ever created such a useful program.  Maybe a query on Linguist List would bring an answer.
 
Bob

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From: owner-siouan at lists.colorado.edu on behalf of Justin McBride
Sent: Thu 6/1/2006 1:17 PM
To: siouan at lists.colorado.edu
Subject: Re: SIL Not Recommending SILDoulos IPA93 Now (fwd)



>A repost from the Linguist List.  Note that SILDoulos IPA93 (or rather a
> modifiable relative of it) is the basis of the "Standard Siouan" fonts
> I've been circulating.  I think IPA93 is SIL's own IPA variant of the
> underlying SIL Doulos font.

I've been hard at work generating XML stuff for the Kaw language this year,
which means I've been performing a lot of character swaps on our older
materials to convert them to Unicode.  In particular, I've been working on
converting the SS SIL Doulos/Sophia/Manuscript L fonts and CSD Doulos font
with three "target fonts" in mind:  Lucida Sans Unicode, Arial Unicode MS,
and Gentium.  At long last I think I've worked out some fairly useful tables
of ordered changes for this purpose.  Now, I realize that Kaw
phonology/orthography is unique to Kaw, but I'd be happy to provide what I
have to anyone on the list who might need that kinda thing for another
Siouan language.  I figure any place beyond square one is better than square
one itself.  I must warn you, though, I've not had much luck at all with
SIL's Consistent Changes program trying to implement my changes.  So I've
had to rely on tables that I just print out and follow when I'm doing my
mindnumbing find-and-replace tasks in Word or whatever other application I
happen to be using.  This means that the info I would be willing to share
may translate into a lot of work for you (like it does for me).  But again,
I'd be happy to share what I have.

Justin McBride
Language Director & acting Webmaster
Kaw Nation
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