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- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 93 11:35:56 -0500
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- From: "M. Roy Harris" <mrh3b@FARADAY.CLAS.VIRGINIA.EDU>
- Subject: Re: IPA fonts
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- >Has anyone out there found International Phonetic Alphabet fonts
- >that will work within NB 4.0, using an HP clone laser printer?
-
- If you own NB 3/3.1, I would suggest that you go back to it to do
- your IPA. I wasted a day or so trying to make my French IPA font
- work with NB4, but to no avail. Possibly all the symbols that you
- will want are available for EGA or VGA display in NB.FNT (as well
- have explained at length here) for NB4. Once you have found an HP
- LaserJet softfont with the IPA symbols you need, the trick it to
- interface the screen display with the appropriate printer font
- ASCII value in you driver, along with width values, etc. Until we
- understand better the coding of NB4's printer drivers, I venture
- to say that the procedure will be difficult and time consuming.
-
- Back to my suggestion that you use NB 3/3.1. You can get a very
- acceptable set of IPA symbols -- both for VGA screen display and
- for your HP clone -- from Tim Montler at North Texas State. I
- can't lay my hands on his address at the moment, but I believe
- that I have posted it here (although I might have sent it
- privately to someone instead). Using Lodestar, you can construct
- a printer driver in a minute.
-
- Am I correct in assuming that you are in Madison, Wisc.? If so,
- contact SoftCraft. They have some nice, and quite inexpensive, HP
- LaserJet fonts among their user-supplied fonts. You can construct
- your own EGA/VGA fonts by plucking the symbols you need from
- NB.FNT and integrating them into a stand-alone file with the
- editor EVAFONT. I have described the procedure in detail here
- (and would not want to repeat it). You can retrieve it from the
- archives. It must have been sometime around mid-December that I
- posted it.
-
-
- Roy Harris French Language & Literature
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