igb@fulcrum.bt.co.uk (Ian G Batten) (09/25/89)
Does anyone have an International Phonetic Alphabet font in Metafont? Or, indeed, any other format? Half-finished developments are welcome! Or anything! ian
spqr@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Sebastian Rahtz) (09/26/89)
In article <59@masalla.fulcrum.bt.co.uk> igb@fulcrum.bt.co.uk (Ian G Batten) writes:
Does anyone have an International Phonetic Alphabet font in Metafont?
Or, indeed, any other format? Half-finished developments are welcome!
Or anything!
we bought a full IPA alphabet from the Washington State University
(Dean Guenther was the contact - see a recent TUGboat for address),
but he doesn't supply source, if that matters to you. We bought 300
dpi, 118 dpi and 1270 dpi, and until we buy a 600 dpi printer...
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Sebastian Rahtz S.Rahtz@uk.ac.soton.ecs (JANET)
Computer Science S.Rahtz@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Bitnet)
Southampton S09 5NH, UK S.Rahtz@sot-ecs.uucp (uucp)dhosek@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Donald Hosek) (09/27/89)
In article <59@masalla.fulcrum.bt.co.uk> igb@fulcrum.bt.co.uk (Ian G Batten) writes: >Does anyone have an International Phonetic Alphabet font in Metafont? >Or, indeed, any other format? Half-finished developments are welcome! >Or anything! Washington State University has one which they may be making pd (I don't remember). Even commercially, it's reasonably priced and of good quality. For more info, send a note to Dean Guenther <GUENTHER@WSUVM1.BITNET> or <GUENTHER@WSUVM1.WSU.EDU> -dh -- Don Hosek | Internet: DHOSEK@HMCVAX.CLAREMONT.EDU | Bitnet: DHOSEK@HMCVAX.BITNET | Phone: 714-920-0655 (I used to be a Mudder, but I got better)
jcb@lfcs.ed.ac.uk (Julian Bradfield) (09/27/89)
In article <2135@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> dhosek@jarthur.UUCP (Donald Hosek) writes: >>Does anyone have an International Phonetic Alphabet font in Metafont? >>Or, indeed, any other format? Half-finished developments are welcome! >Washington State University has one which they may be making pd (I don't >remember). Even commercially, it's reasonably priced and of good quality. Well, some of the letters are of reasonable quality, but some (including some more common ones) are not---there's too much unslanted math greek masquerading as IPA. I am doing my own letters as I need them; at the moment I only have a few, but some are, IMHO, better formed than the Washington letters, viz. epsilon, eth, iota, yogh. If anybody wants them, mail me.
lee@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Greg Lee) (09/27/89)
From article <2135@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>, by dhosek@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Donald Hosek):
" In article <59@masalla.fulcrum.bt.co.uk> igb@fulcrum.bt.co.uk (Ian G Batten) writes:
" >Does anyone have an International Phonetic Alphabet font in Metafont?
" >Or, indeed, any other format? Half-finished developments are welcome!
" >Or anything!
"
" Washington State University has one which they may be making pd (I don't
" remember). Even commercially, it's reasonably priced and of good quality.
" For more info, send a note to
" Dean Guenther <GUENTHER@WSUVM1.BITNET> or <GUENTHER@WSUVM1.WSU.EDU>
I have a version of a Washington IPA font, and I could post it
if it were clear this was an ok thing to do. My copy has a notice
requiring distribution of "the" font set "in its entirety",
but I can't figure out whether this applies to the IPA font
(other fonts were included) or whether it would obligate me
to distribute the pk/gf files (which I no longer have, since I
generated my own) and .exe file (which I discarded).
I don't understand the point of the restriction on distibuting the fonts
-- I'm not sure it has a point. I can't seem to contact anyone from WSU
to clarify the situation. If anyone can figure it out, please post or
email me. It's a nice font.
I've appended below some excerpts from documents that accompanied
the IPA font which have some information about the rather
puzzling copyright and where the font can be obtained (presumably
on ibmpc floppy).
Greg, lee@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu
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This disk includes TEST RELEASE files for
WNIPA, the ipa-like font, and release versions
of the WNPFA series. The IPA files are available
in source in IPA.exe, and a single 300dpi .pk file
and its tfm are available in the IPA subdirectory
...
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WNPFA.DOC
...
This font set is free; it is not, however, in the public domain. There
are restrictions as to what you may do with your copy of this font set;
these restrictions are described in this document. ...
LICENSE
...
The Washington Phonetic Font set A is a copyrighted unpublished work
produced by the Humanities and Arts Computing Center of the University
of Washington, Seattle, Washington. You are licensed to use the
font set, free of any royalty payments, in perpetuity. You may make multiple
copies of the font set, and you may install the font set on any number
of computer systems which are under your personal control. You may redistribute
the font set IN ITS ENTIRETY, INCLUDING THIS DOCUMENT (in unmodified form)
to any person or organization, provided that you may not charge any fee
whatsoever.
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AVAILABILITY
Persons wishing to acquire the WNPFA font set may obtain a copy
either from anyone who already has a copy, subject to licensing
limitations described above, or from
The North West Computing Support Center
DW-10
University of Washington
Seattle, Washington 98195
The North West Center charges a modest fee to recover costs; call
(206)-543-6259 for current ordering information. No other individual
or organization is authorized to distribute this font-set on a for-fee
basis.
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