tom@mims-iris.waterloo.edu (Tom Haapanen) (05/23/91)
Michael J. Eager <eager@ringworld.Eng.Sun.COM> writes: > Doesn't it sort of muddy the waters to mix phonemes into a discussion > of fonts and orthography? Certainly does! > English may have fourteen vowel sounds [...] > Orthography does not match phonetics in any language I am aware of. That > is why there is an International Phonetic Alphabet. Try Finnish! The finnish vowels are: a e i o u y \"a \"o These vowels can also be used to describe all 14 English vowel sounds. For example: English Finnish hut a met e sit i or o put u hat \"a take e+i out a+u told o+u Each vowel is pronounced the same regardless of what vowels are surrounding it. So, if you have the word "auto" (hey, so it's international!) you would pronnounce the "a" vowel, the "u" vowel, "t" and the "o" vowel. And that's the way it always works, with no exceptions! Of course, this has very little to do with fonts... ObFont: Would anyone with a PostScript font editor be willing to add umlaut characters to a few ATM fonts (for reasonable compensation)? I don't really want to fork out $300 or whatever just to add the umlauts to a few characters. [ \tom haapanen --- university of waterloo --- tom@mims-iris.waterloo.edu ] [ "i don't even know what street canada is on" -- al capone ]