Re: TTF for IPA

Carlos Thompson wrote:
>
> Kristian Jensen wrote:
>
> > Just a note Christopher might want to consider when downloading the
> > IPA fonts from SIL:
> >
> > 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", and is also available from
> > SIL. In fact, I believe you can download it as a package with the
> > IPA fonts. It encodes the different IPA symbols into a combination
> > of keys on your keyboard. You can also use it to type in fonts for
> > other languages written in non-alphabet scripts. It takes some
> > getting used to but once you get the hang of it it is really fun to
> > use. Enjoy!
>
> I've used those fonts with MS Word (and WordPad with no asociated
> program)  If I'm not mistaken, the distribution of those symbols are
> similar to some ASCII IPA encoding, this way if you type D or Z you
> would get the symbols for /D/ and /Z/
That's true for some symbols below 127... But that's yet another
encoding to learn :(... Moreover I have not found their Keyboard
Manager very useful. Personally I have written some (quick and
dirty) Tcl/Tk code to translate X-SAMPA ASCII reprensentation into
the SIL IPA encoding. So I just type in X-SAMPA, and copy/paste the
result into the target application. But my code does not handle all
the IPA characters, just those essential to me (i.e. a small subset
of X-SAMPA required for Almaqerin)...

Didier.
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