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Re: Fonts to present phonology in IPA at web pages

From:Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>
Date:Tuesday, March 19, 2002, 9:41
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. http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr Take your life as a movie: do not let anybody else play the leading role.

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