Re: Sorting PIE with IPA

Paul Bennett escreveu:
> On Mon, 21 May 2007 17:31:52 -0400, Edgard Bikelis <bikelis@...>
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>>     Hi! I never heard of your PIE conlang, or maybe you are working
>> on PIE itself?
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> Edgard, I think you misunderstand.
Oops ; ). It's slightly off-topic then, but I should have noted.


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> Both your answers agree with what I've done so far, which is (for
> example)
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> ... h ʰ h₁ h₂ h₃ i ɨ ɪ j ʲ ʝ k ḱ kʷ l ɬ ɭ ɮ ʟ m ɱ ɯ ɰ ...
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Good lord! That will be the most stravagant typographic challenge I ever
heard ; ). But, indeed... stick with the 'visual way', as you call it.
We don't know the exact articulation of those sounds... giving it in IPA
is just risk without benefit... more than using IPA everywhere.

>> On a typographical point of view, it's much harder to find a good
>> typeface to IPA symbols. Unless you are not fond of serif...
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> Oh, I have a perfect font for my needs:
> http://scripts.sil.org/CharisSILfont
Aha, a font with serif! I just knew Doulos until now. My predilect font
ever is Adobe Jenson... i really like serifs and italic.
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> As I find characters I need, I'm creating them (using
> http://fontforge.sourceforge.net ). When the book is complete, I have
> already discussed with Victor at SIL sending him any characters I have
> created for inclusion in the public font if appropriate.
Do you use it on Linux or on Windows through Cygwin? I heard a lot about
that program, but... I would rather install any linux here than using
Cygwin...
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> Thanks for your help!
A misguided help at first, but still help ; ). You're welcome.
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> Paul
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Edgard

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