rcopm@koel.rmit.oz (Paul Menon) (04/25/88)
Does anyone know whether the I.P.A. (International Phonetic Alphabet) font
is available for the Macintosh? If so, I would appreciate a copy (if PD)
or directions to its source.
Sticking with fonts, does the Mac Font Manager support arbitrary 'accents'
an any character? A true IPA character set would need one unless a special
Word-Processing/Type-Setting program is used. By 'accents' I mean a set of
super/sub marks that can be applied to any of the characters in the
font. The normal (English) Font Manager allows a very restricted set, namely
grave, acute, etc and then only to a specific set of characters. If the new
Font Manager (or Script Manager) supports exotic scripts like Kanji, etc, then
does this mean that a font like IPA would need to be a script by itself? I
would appreciate any clarification.
Thankyou.
Paul Menon.
Dept of Communication & Electronic Engineering,
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology,
124 Latrobe St, Melbourne, 3000, Australia
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In article <417@koel.rmit.oz> rcopm@koel.rmit.oz (Paul Menon) writes: > Sticking with fonts, does the Mac Font Manager support arbitrary 'accents' >an any character? A true IPA character set would need one unless a special >Word-Processing/Type-Setting program is used. By 'accents' I mean a set of >super/sub marks that can be applied to any of the characters in the >font. The normal (English) Font Manager allows a very restricted set, namely >grave, acute, etc and then only to a specific set of characters. If the new >Font Manager (or Script Manager) supports exotic scripts like Kanji, etc, then >does this mean that a font like IPA would need to be a script by itself? I Every Font Manager that the MAC has ever had has at least supported fairly arbitrary non-negative horizontal spacing. So you can have whatever types of accents you want above or below or on top of other characters by just making the accent character advance by zero before the next character is drawn. Characters can also kern left or right, sticking into the character before or after. So with a fixed width character set, you could easily set up characters that drew circles or squares around other characters, for example. There is no reason at all for IPA to be a script. Disk #230 from EduComp, a public domain / shareware Macintosh source claims to have an IPA on it although I have not used that particular font or Educomp's services, so I can't really vouch for it. They are at 742 Genevieve, Suite D, Solana Beach, CA 92075. -- +1 617-969-9570 Donald E. Eastlake, III ARPA: dee@CCA.CCA.COM usenet: {cbosg,decvax,linus}!cca!dee P. O. Box N, MIT Branch P. O., Cambridge, MA 02139-0903 USA