Re: TTF for IPA
| From: | Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, December 8, 1998, 9:53 |
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At 02:51 08/12/98 +0100, you wrote:
>Nik Taylor wrote:
>
>>Kristian Jensen wrote:
>>> Before you can use them, you also have to download a program
>>> that will allow you to use these fonts properly. Its a keyboard
>>> manager called "Tavultesoft Keyboard Manager",
>>
>>You don't need that at all, that's for shoebox, and isn't
>>necessary there, either, it just makes it easier. To use the
>>font, you simply select that font in whatever program you're in,
>>just as easily as selecting Times New Roman or Courier New.
>>
>I guess this is a matter of taste and opinion. I have tried using
>the font without the Keyboard Manager and I must say that its a bit
>nonesensical for me. Of course, it works fine if you don't intend to
>use a lot of IPA symbols in the first place. But once you start
>using a whole lot of IPA symbols, it becomes a lot easier to use
>these fonts with the keyboard manager. So one may as well learn the
>codes that come with the keyboard manager. I was under the
>impression that Christophe's friend was going to use a whole lot of
>them.
>
In fact, I don't know how much she will use it (not very much as I know,
she is in the same engineering school as me, but also takes a literary
course because she want to become a journalist, I think it will be the only
linguistic essay she'll have to do during her course). But I will use it I
think (as soon as I have installed it on a friend's computer. I don't have
one). By the way, thank you for all who answered so quickly to my question.
A last thing to say. This morning, after a long period of desert (between
5 and 10 posts a day from Conlang), I saw with pleasure the downloading of
40 posts. Youpi! My mailing box is again full of conlangers' posts!
>Regards,
>-Kristian- 8-)
>
>
Christophe Grandsire
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