> You know, we're all trying to write to each other with things that sort
> of represent different versions of the IPA, and it's really confusing (at
> least to me). I have a solution (that is, if everyone is writing from either
> a Mac or IBM clone). There's this website:
>
> <
http://user.dtcc.edu/~berlin/fonts.html>
>
> It's called Dr. Berlin's Foreign Font archive. Aside from having every
> script known to man (except Klingon), it has IPA fonts. There are two. The
> first package (the SIL package) has three fonts which have easy access to all
> the symbols. It's the best IPA font there is. But, the other package, which
> has one font (Kansas University Linguistics IPA; it'll show up as Kuldipa) is
> fantastic in another way. In it, you can write all the Roman characters
> (upper and lower case, numbers and punctuation), AND all the IPA symbols.
> The only drawback is that the IPA symbols are in weird, out of the way
> places. Nevertheless, if you're willing to learn how to use it (you can even
> make a little chart as to how to make what characters; I did myself), I think
> it could greatly improve our communication if we all wrote in that font.
> If you go to the website and download the font, it will be in Windows
> format. If you're a Mac user (like me), they have a font converter program
> called "TTF Converter", I believe, and all you have to do is drag the font
> over the icon and it will change any Windows font into a Mac, suitcased font.
> It's wonderful. Anyway, this is my idea, and I think it would really
> benefit us all if we at least tried it.
>
> -Jenesis
>
> P.S.: I decided to do a quick rundown of my first language (the one I've been
> working on since last November), and, by doing some estimating (my dictionary
> has entries by triconsonantal root, so I counted up the roots, estimated 5-7
> lexemes per root), my first language (called Megdevi) has 3,855 words (low
> end) to 5,335 words (high end). The document itself on my computer is about
> 110 pages long. And I used the Kansas University font for the whole thing
> <plug>
>