Re: Fonts to present phonology in IPA at web pages

En réponse à "Y.Penzev" <isaacp@...>:

> Shalom `al kull'khem! (Hello to y'all!)
>
> A definite question. What fonts can I use to create a web page
> presenting
> phonology, if I want to demonstrate sounds with IPA, and not X-SAMPA?
> I've got several fonts to type IPA symbols in, but I've got no software
> to
> make them "embedded" (?) Honestly, I don't understand well, what it
> means
> :-)
You should ask Nizar Habash, the creator of Delason. His page
(http://www.cs.umd.edu/~habash/delason/) uses embedded fonts, and works
impressively well :)) . He was on the list for a while, but I don't know if
he's gone or just become a lurker. IIRC he had to use a commercial program to
embed fonts correctly. So unless you're ready to spend some money, it's
probably not a good idea...

> Do the majority of us has any IPA fonts installed at our comps, such
> as
> Lucida Sans Unicode, Thryomanes and/or any SIL IPA fonts (Doulos,
> Manuscript, Sophia)?
IIRC Doulos SIL IPA is now distributed along with Windows as standard font (or
at least it was on my computer without me having to install it :)) . I don't
know for Macs though. The problem with using fonts is that you'll get platform
problems between Mac and PC (are there Mac equivalents to the IPA fonts?), or
even with Linux.

 Should I provide a link to download such fonts if
> you
> have none?
>
You always should provide a link to fonts you use that are not standard. Of
course, the platform problem remains...

Christophe.

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