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- September 13, 1993
-
- Dear Linguist,
-
- The enclosed files constitute the SIL Encore IPA Fonts.
- They are in both TrueType and PostScript Type 1 formats. Please read
- the provided electronic documentation for more specific information on the
- fonts.
-
- The Summer Institute of Linguistics (SIL) is an organization of
- linguists dedicated to the study and promotion of the thousands of
- minority languages around the world. The Printing Arts Department
- serves SIL by developing products to assist in the publication of
- linguistic texts.
-
- We are happy to make these IPA fonts available to the general
- linguistic community at no charge. More SIL fonts, containing a much
- richer phonetic character set (930+ characters) can be obtained at a
- reasonable cost by using the order form provided in the electronic
- documentation.
-
- You may (and are encouraged to) share these fonts with your friends
- and co-workers, but with the following restrictions:
-
- * All files must be copied together, including this one.
- * No fee may be charged for the fonts
-
- Even though these fonts are "free", SIL retains all copyright and
- ownership of the included fonts and reserves the right to restrict
- their use and distribution at any time. They may not be used as a
- basis for other fonts. They may be placed on bulletin boards, etc.
- but cannot be included in (or bundled with) any commercial product
- including hard disks or CD-ROMs without specific written permission.
-
- SIL Printing Arts Department - Font Development
- 7500 West Camp Wisdom Road
- Dallas, TX 75236
- (214) 709-2495
- fonts@sil.org
-
-
- ATTENTION POSTSCRIPT USERS WHO ARE UPGRADING
- FROM VERSION 1.0 (SIL Premier IPA Fonts):
-
- If you have been using the PostScript fonts from an earlier version of the
- SIL Premier/Encore IPA Fonts you should be sure to de-install those fonts
- (using the ATM Control Panel) before installing the new fonts. If you only
- use TrueType, the provided installation program will automatically remove
- the older fonts from your system before installing the new ones.
-
-
- INSTALLING IN WINDOWS
-
- The SIL IPA Fonts 1.2 come with a utility to automatically install the
- TrueType fonts and documentation in Microsoft Windows. There are two
- methods you may use to run it from File Manager.
-
-
- Do NOT attempt to run INSTALL from the DOS command line. INSTALL is a
- Windows program; it will not run under DOS.
-
-
- Method 1:
-
- Select the drive icon where you have placed the SIL Encore IPA Fonts disk
- or the files downloaded from an on-line service. Find INSTALL.EXE in the
- directory window and double-click on it.
-
-
- Method 2:
-
- Select File; Run from the menu bar. At the prompt, enter the drive letter
- containing the font installation diskette, followed by a colon and
- backslash and the word INSTALL.
-
- Example: A:\INSTALL
-
- In this case, the fonts are being installed from drive A.
-
- If you downloaded the fonts from Internet or CompuServe or another on-line
- service, enter the drive:\directory where you placed the files.
-
- Example: C:\DOWNLOAD\INSTALL
-
- In this case, the files were placed in the \DOWNLOAD directory on drive C.
- (Enter the actual drive and directory where you placed your files.)
-
-
- Note that INSTALL will automatically install TrueType fonts. It will NOT
- install PostScript fonts. If you are using PostScript fonts, you will need
- to uninstall them first and either remove the files from your hard drive
- or else plan on installing the new font files to a different directory.
-
-
- INSTALL will copy the documentation and the COMPOSE utility files to your
- hard drive as well. If you wish, it will also create Program Manager items
- enabling you to directly view the IPAFONTS.HLP and IPACHARS.WRI files.
-
-
- When running INSTALL, you will be given the opportunity to select what you
- want to install. The default is to install everything and use TrueType fonts.
- You may change this if you wish. Additionally, you may opt to install Fonts,
- Utilities (COMPOSE files), and Documentation in different directories. Just
- follow the instructions and respond to the dialog boxes. If you are uncertain
- about something, click on the HELP button.
-
-
- INSTALL will automatically terminate when finished, with either a message
- stating that the fonts were successfully installed or that there was an
- error. If there was an error, you will get a message before exiting
- informing you of what went wrong.
-
-
- CHANGES FOR VERSION 1.2
-
- ***Linking Character***
-
- Character 237 in the original (1.0) IPA fonts was a non-spacing diacritic.
- This really should have been a spacing character. Although the IPA calls
- that character a "Bottom Tie Bar" (analogous to the Top one in code 131),
- it signifies "Linking (absence of a break)" and is used to link two sounds
- that are written with a space between them. Hence, these fonts have 237 as
- a spacing character.
-
-
- ***Doulos Character Spacing***
-
- After a number of comments from users, we have "relaxed" the spacing of the
- SILDoulosIPA font to conform to that of the SILDoulos fonts in the SIL Encore
- Fonts. This means that there will be more spacing between the characters,
- making the text easier to read. This also means that texts set in the original
- SILDoulosIPA will have different line breaks if opened on a computer with the
- new SILDoulosIPA. If you have a strong reason to retain the original spacing,
- do not install this new font. We do however recommend that you use this new
- font.
-
-
- ***Sophia Dieresis***
-
- The three dieresis characters (45, 95, 208) in the SILSophiaIPA font now have
- dots spaced further apart.
-
-
- ***Manuscript Space Width***
-
- The space character in the SILManuscriptIPA font is now (reliably) equal in
- width to the other characters.
-
-