Re: TTF for IPA
| From: | Didier Willis <dwillis@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, December 7, 1998, 14:06 |
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Christophe Grandsire wrote:
>
> A friend of mine has a linguistics essay to type down and she asked
> me how to do it with Word. I know that some IPA symbols are already
> available via the common fonts or the symbol font, but not all. What
> I want to know is whether a (or various, as I think that there are
> too many symbols in the IPA for a 255-character font) True Type Font
> for IPA exists, and if so, if it is available on the web.
>
> Thanks by advance.
>
> Christophe Grandsire
Hi Christophe,
You can check at <http://www.sil.org>. It is the web site of the
'Summer Institute of Linguistics', and they have several IPA fonts
freely distributed, as well as some commercial fonts.
More precisely, refer to the following URL.
<http://www.sil.org/computing/fonts/encore-ipa.html>
Personally, I use their "SIL Doulos 1990" roman IPA font, which
is available as TrueType (Windoze) and Type 1 (PostScript).
I haven't tried the 1993 version, because it is only available
in TrueType, but I guess it looks better and is more complete.
By the way, we have never discussed that before, but we are
several french conlangers in the list currently (4 or so,
I guess). I live in the suburb of Paris, perhaps we can try
do to something one day?
Didier.
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