Re: Fonts to present phonology in IPA at web pages

----- Original Message -----
From: Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>
Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 11:41 AM

> En réponse à "Y.Penzev" <isaacp@...>:
>
> 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...
Well, although I could have spent some money, I live in a country where
such ordinary people like me pay and are paid in cash, so I'm unable to
send the fee for any commercial product or even shareware...

> > 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.
Well, I don't even know if Mac's read Unicode...

>  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...
Is Thryomanes then in public domain? Any comments, Herman?

Still, actually, I see that the best way is to remain loyal to Times New
Roman and Arial and wait till they have IPA symbols included... Oh, yeah,
and use some substitutes for now (I saw some at Jesse Bangs' site. Jesse?)

> Christophe.
Yitzik
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