Re: A Proposition

At 9:13 am -0500 22/3/01, Padraic Brown wrote:
>On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Irina Rempt wrote:
>
>>On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, David Peterson wrote:
[snip]
>>> It's called Dr. Berlin's Foreign Font archive.
>>
>>Which doesn't help on a mailing list; not only doesn't everybody
>>use Mac or Windows (I use Linux, for instance),
>
>Unix, here.
..and there must be a lot of Linux & Unix users around.

>>but the list is text-based and we'd like to keep it that way.
>
>Yes, thank you very much! It's a fine idea, but not really practical
>in this medium.
Indeed not.  I've had an IPA font for ages, but unless I know that my
recipient has the same font and that my text won't get mangled on the way
to his/her IPS, then it's not much use in this medium.

>Perhaps the proposition could be modified by choosing
>a version of ASCII IPA out there and stick to that.
Yes - when I first joined this list, Kirshenbaum's sysyem to be the norm,
but I've seen a definite shift towards SAMPA.  Indeed, it seems that most
more or less adhere to SAMPA now with the major exception the IPA a-e
ligature ('ash' - southern Brit & American _a_ in _cat_), which is
generally written [&] here (following Kirshenbaum) rather than SAMPA [{].
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At 9:36 am -0600 22/3/01, Andrew D Chaney wrote:
[....]
>
>Oh how I long for Unicode email.
AMEN!
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At 2:45 pm -0600 22/3/01, Dan Seriff wrote:
>David Peterson wrote:
[snip]
>> I don't know what "text-based" means, or what "unix" is.  :(  Computer
>> illiterate, am I.  I use a Mac, after all.
>
>Hey, now. Don't make the assumption that all Mac users are computer
>illiterate. I'm a Mac user because it works better than Windows,
Same here!  As I lecture in computer science for a living (and have a
master's degree in it), I don't think I can be called computer illiterate.
I use a Mac out of deliberate choice.

>but my
>brother, father and stepfather are all programmers, and I do some
>programming on my own.
..and I do as much programming as I can find time for.

Ray.




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