SapirSans is a family of font s which combines a wide range of symbols used in a variety of syntactic frameworks with a set of phonetic symbols and diacritics. It is designed by Eric Schiller based on a sans serif typeface designed by Stone.
Use this font as you would any other Macintosh font. Owners of Adobe Type Manager should use the Type1 printer font. System 7 users who do not have Adobe Type Manager shoud use the True Type font if they will be printing on a laser printer which supports System 7 or System 6.07 with the true type init. I have not supplied many polished bitmaps simply because I do not use them, preferring the Type 1 or True Type versions which do not require additional screen fonts. At present, only a subset of the font is availab le for use in Windows, and the diacritics do not work properly. This is a problem generated by Windows, and it should be solved in a future release of Windows.
The files and documentation included in this package are freeware and can be distributed provided that that the entire contents including documentation are included. It comes with no warranties or guarantees, either implied or expressed. When I provided the files, they were free of viruses and other nasties. What happened along the way, who knows, so take the usual precautions and practice safe insertion techniques.
There are some benefits from becoming a registered user. For $25 you will receive a disk containing the most recent version of the font, and will also receive the most recent source files which can be modified using Fontographer. Send a check or money order to
Eric Schiller
5528 South Hyde Park Boulevard #403
Chicago IL 60637
Tel: 312-955-7368
Fax: 312-955-7403 (Phone first - this is a fax-modem)
For further information, you can contact me at schiller@sapir.uchicago.edu. For a reasonable fee I can customize this or any other font, develop specialized Double Helix databases or provide a wide range of desktop publishing or consulting services.
SapirSans Version 2.0 (18 Point)
Here is the keyboard layout for the nomal, shift, option, and shift/option keyboard.
Diacritics place the relevant mark over the preceding letter, whatever it may be. Note that at times the screen fonts do not show the proper spacing of the diacritics. All should function properly on the laserwriter. Most diacritics are illustrated with the letter a, but some are shown with more relevant letters.
