Re: A Font for Pictographs

D'oh! I'm stupid. It's a .zip file that contains a .ttf, not a .ttf!�Sorry. :(
Here's the
url:��http://dedalvs.free.fr/dl/daveipa.zip��-David�*******************************************************************�"
eleSkarez ygralleryf ydZZixelje je ox2mejze."�"No eternal reward will forgive
us now for wasting the dawn."��-Jim
Morrison��http://dedalvs.free.fr/��On Dec 14, 2008, at 7∞32 AM,
Eugene Oh wrote:��> The font sounds like a great way to type IPA! Character
Palette is�> only good�> for minimal use. But when I tried to download your
font it turned up a�> missing page warning...�> Eugene�>�> On Sun, Dec
14, 2008 at 9:35 AM, David J. Peterson�> <dedalvs@...>wrote:�>�>> Oh, I
can tell you why--and let me tell you, when the change�>> occurred, I was NOT
happy.�>>�>> I, as some may or may not know, am a 100% Mac person, and�>>
have been since I started using computers (my first was an Apple�>> IIe).
Back when I started in linguistics, Mac was still running OS 9�>> (now known
as "Classic" [well, actually now non-existent: what�>> *used* to be known as
"Classic" during the early days of OS X]).�>> In those days, you'd download a
font like the SIL font, and all�>> the characters would be mapped to
keystrokes, as the following�>> (on the left is the keystroke, on the right
is the X-SAMPA character�>> [which, of course, would print out as an IPA
character]):�>>�>> s = [s]�>> S = [S]�>> z = [z]�>> Z = [Z]�>> e =
[e]�>> E = [E]�>> d = [d]�>> D = [D]�>>�>> etc.�>>�>> You can see
why this would be an ideal system.�>>�>> Anyway, I used to use this font
called the Kansas University�>> Linguistics Department IPA font (called
KULDIPA2). I liked this�>> font because it allowed you to write *all* the
upper and lower�>> case letters, *and* it had most of the run-of-the-mill IPA
symbols.�>> This way, when I wrote up my dictionaries in AppleWorks
(another�>> defunct program), I could just use one font for the whole
thing.�>> What a relief! The way it worked, though, was it made use of�>>
Apple's "alt" key and the "alt+shift" combination, and mapped�>> most every
symbol to a bunch of weird places, e.g.:�>>�>> alt+5 = [E]�>> alt+6 =
[U]�>> alt+k = [D]�>>�>> They were totally counter-intuitive, but once
you learned the�>> keystroke for each character, you could write up an
entire�>> document with one font, including upper case letters *and*�>>
punctuation. It was wonderful!�>>�>> Then came OS X. Of course, it was
wonderful in many ways.�>> One thing it did, though, was it killed these
fonts that are created�>> just like the fonts I make (which is why Sidaan's
font displays�>> correctly, by the way), because it opened up Unicode to
Macs.�>> Because of that, *all* the SIL fonts switched to Unicode
mappings.�>> This is why if you download and install a SIL font now and
just�>> type, it looks just like an ordinary font. In order to properly
use�>> it, you have to use the Mac's "Character Palette", which, in my�>>
opinion, is hopelessly inefficient. Of course, for philosophical�>> reasons,
this is better (if you type shift+a, you should get the�>> grapheme "capital
A", not some other character), but it makes�>> life difficult for conlangers.
In fact, the result of this was once�>> I switched over, it just about
destroyed all my old documents.�>> That Kansas University font didn't work at
ALL anymore, and�>> I had to go back and replace EVERY SINGLE ENTRY in
just�>> about every dictionary I had using that font. I'm still not done�>>
with Zhyler, in fact (which is why, I don't know if anyone's�>> noticed, I
haven't done anything with that language in, oh,�>> about...three, four
years? My old dictionary still isn't fully�>> converted yet!).�>>�>> So,
what to do? Well, I did a couple of things. First, all the�>> fonts�>> I
create are mapped to keystrokes I know, using the old alt and�>> alt+shift
Mac rows (it probably doesn't make much sense to�>> Windows users, but it
does to me). Second (and this is relevant�>> for you, Eric), I created a new
font called DaveIPA. What is it?�>> It's the old SIL font. The only
difference is I created it so it�>> works�>> just like the old one
does--just like the mapping above. If you�>> download this font and install
it, it'll work just like the old one.�>> Using my font creation program, I
basically opened up the new�>> SIL font, scrolled down to the Unicode
locations of the IPA�>> characters,�>> and pasted them into the places
where I was used to them being,�>> and made that a font. This font certainly
isn't as useful as the�>> regular SIL font for those who are used to dealing
with Unicode,�>> but you might rather like it, Eric. If you'd like to give it
a�>> whirl,�>> you can download it here:�>>�>>
http://dedalvs.free.fr/dl/daveipa.ttf�>>�>> I understand that this is a
Mac-only, non-ideal stop-gap solution,�>> but until there's a better way to
Unicode on a Mac, I'm sticking�>> with my font.�>>�>> -David�>>
*******************************************************************�>> "sunly
eleSkarez ygralleryf ydZZixelje je ox2mejze."�>> "No eternal reward will
forgive us now for wasting the dawn."�>>�>> -Jim Morrison�>>�>>
http://dedalvs.free.fr/�>>�>>�>> On Dec 13, 2008, at 10∞24 PM, Eric
Christopherson wrote:�>>�>> On Dec 13, 2008, at 8:00 PM, Eric
Christopherson wrote:�>>>�>>> On Dec 13, 2008, at 6:49 PM, Gary Shannon
wrote:�>>>>�>>>> --- On Sat, 12/13/08, Gary Shannon <fiziwig@...>
wrote:�>>>>>�>>>>> The font has been corrected to work properly with
Microsoft�>>>>> Internet�>>>>> Explorer. The new version has been uploaded
to my page:�>>>>>�>>>>>
<http://fiziwig.com/glyph/fragz01.html>�>>>>>�>>>>�>>>> Has anyone gotten
it working on a Mac? I'm having no luck.�>>>>�>>>�>>> Also (and maybe
this is part of the reason it's not working for�>>> me), could�>>> someone
help me out with symbol-encoded fonts on Macs? There are�>>> certain�>>>
fonts - like Symbol and the old SIL 93 IPA fonts - which don't�>>> seem to
work�>>> in OS X like on Windows. Namely, in Windows if you select
Symbol�>>> and start�>>> typing normal ASCII characters with it, they come
out as Greek�>>> letters of�>>> other symbols; but in OS X it just shows
regular Roman text. Why�>>> is that,�>>> and is there a way to change
it?�>>>�>>> That seems to be true of some conscript fonts on web pages too
-�>>> they show�>>> up as regular Roman text. For some reason, David's
Sidaan font�>>> displays�>>> correctly.�>>>�>>�