Re: New Conlang: Terkunan

On Sun, 4 Mar 2007 17:43:40 -0600, Herman Miller <hmiller@...> wrote:

>Jeffrey Jones wrote:
>> On Sun, 4 Mar 2007 10:56:35 +0100, Henrik Theiling
<theiling@...> wrote:
>>> Hi!
>>>
>>> Jeffrey Jones writes:
>>>> ...
>>>> I downloaded and installed Thryomanes 1.1, but it doesn't help if the web
>>>> page selects a different font.
>>> Hmm.  It could be that your browser has an option like 'Always use my
>>> fonts'.  I use that too to view everything with DejaVu.
>>
>> I found it under Accessibility and it works, except that Thryomanes 1.1
>> doesn't have the IPA length mark.
>
>I'm sure it must have had it even back then. If it didn't, Thryomanes
>1.2 certainly has it. And what ever happened to Thryomanes 1.3? I
>thought I'd finished it, but there must have been something missing or I
>would've put that up.
I didn't use Thryomanes 1.2 because my computer doesn't have an unzip
program. Fortunately, you provided individual TTF files for Thryomanes 1.1.
Thanks.

Jeff

>This reminds me, though, that I remember having problems with old
>versions of Internet Explorer on a Windows 98 system with IPA
>characters. It was trying to substitute characters from a font that I
>didn't have installed (probably Lucida Sans Unicode or Arial Unicode
>MS), even though the font I was using had all the IPA characters.
>
>> Then I found a copy of Mozilla Firefox and tried that. It displays the page
>> correctly without me having to change any settings. It even appears to
>> substitute for the length mark. Maybe I should switch browsers ....