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- From: mmth@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
- Newsgroups: sci.lang
- Subject: Re: IPA fonts..
- Message-ID: <1992Nov6.154636.44470@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
- Date: 6 Nov 92 15:46:36 CST
- References: <1chsjcINN771@uwm.edu> <1992Oct27.193644.22091@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services
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- In article <1992Oct27.193644.22091@midway.uchicago.edu>, schiller@whorf(Eric Schiller) writes:
- > In article <1chsjcINN771@uwm.edu> hahn@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (David James Hahn)
- > writes:
- >> > This may reveal a pathetically low level of technology, but does
- > anyone have
- >> > an IPA font that could be used with an Epson LQ-500 24-pin dot-matrix
- >> > printer on an IBM (using DOS 3.21 or so)?
- >> >
- >> > Alternatively, a Macintosh IPA font?
- >> >
- >> > ---Ron Fein
- >> >
- >> Is there any program or font available with IPA for the PC at all?
- >> I've never seen one. The Mac has all kinds of stuff for linguistics,
- >> what's up? I don't know nothin' about fonts (i.e. all the lingo).
- >
- > Blame Bill Gates. Windows supports TrueType but not zero=-width
- > (non-advancing) characters. There are some postscri[pt fonts that
- > can be used, including Stone Phonetic IF you have software that
- > supports kerning. Chuck Bigelow has not finished Lucida IPA.
- >
- > I provide in-house support at U Chicago on a character by character
- > basis for the PC. We have lots of Mac fonts of course, and I am
- > working on a NeXT font. But to encourage linguists to work on
- > a PC is like distributing dirty needles to drug addicts.
- >
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- > Sometimes my head is in the clouds of theory, but often it is just a fog.
- > My feet, meantime, tend to stay more or less on the ground. I think.
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- > Eric Schiller schiller@sapir.uchicago.edu
- > Dept of Linguistics, Univ. of Chicago schiller@whorf.uchicago.edu
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