marke@wacsvax.OZ (Mark Ellison) (10/14/88)
Does anybody know anything about fonts for linguistic symbols (such as
`eng', `schwa', etc.) for tex/latex? For money or not.
I can't go on pretending that \epsilon is schwa or that jn is a palatal
nasal. What's worse is trying to persuade other people to pretend it too.
T Mark Ellison ... marke@wacsvax
Department of Computer Science
University of Western Australia
Crawley, WA 6009
Australiagyp@csadfa.oz (Patrick Tang) (10/16/88)
From article <868@wacsvax.OZ>, by marke@wacsvax.OZ (Mark Ellison): > Does anybody know anything about fonts for linguistic symbols (such as > `eng', `schwa', etc.) for tex/latex? For money or not. > I can't go on pretending that \epsilon is schwa or that jn is a palatal > nasal. What's worse is trying to persuade other people to pretend it too. > Well, I got a reply from the following when I ask the same question a while back, I am still waiting for them to send the tape for me (MONTHS already!!), sorry if this is a bit long..... --- \documentstyle{article} \begin{document} \section{International Phonetic Alphabet} \subsection{Washington State University} Dean Guenther informs me (June 22, 1988) that Washington State University has an IPA font available. It contains 128 popular IPA characters and diacritics as specified in the {\em Phonetic Symbol Guide\/} by Geoffrey K.~Pullum and William A.~Ladusaw (Chicago, London, 1986). Janene Winter did the MF work on this font. The character positions were coordinated with help from Helmut Feldweg at the Max-Planck-Institut f\"{u}r Psycholinguistik in the Netherlands, Christina Thiele at Carleton University and some ideas from Brian MacWhinney at Carnegie Mellon and Karen Mullen at the University of Kentucky at Louisville. The font also comes with a set of macros to access the characters easily. For example, \verb|\schwa| prints what you would expect. \subsubsection{Terms of Availability} The Washington IPA is available for \$100. The package includes {\tt GF}, {\tt PXL} or {\tt PK} fonts at 9, 10 and 12 point (together) in the Roman face. The typeface is designed to match the CM Roman face. The MF source is not included. \subsubsection{Contact} Send a note to Dean Guenther at {\tt guenther@wsuvm1} on Bitnet, or {\sl \TeX T1\/} Distribution,\\ Computing Service Center,\\ Washington State University,\\ Pullman, WA 99164--1220, USA. \subsection{Other Developments} Georgia Tobin (q.\,v.) has an IPA font, created in old MF79. A bitmap IPA font, {\tt ph10}, was created by Jean Pierre Paillet for use with \TeX\ for typesetting the {\em Canadian Journal of Linguistics\/}. This font is described, with a printout of the character grid, by Christina Thiele in \begin{description} \item `\TeX, Linguistics, and Journal Production' in {\em \TeX\ Users Group\/} {\em Eighth\/} {\em Annual Meeting: Conference Proceedings\/}, edited by Dean Guenther (Providence: TUG, 1988), 5--26. \end{description} {\tt ph10} is now superseded by the Washington font. According to a note from G.~Toal in UK\TeX\ 1988, issue 2, Tibor Tscheke's company, St\"{u}rtze AG, also has an IPA font for sale. Toal does not state whether this font was created with MF, but the implication is that it is usable with \TeX. Contact:\\ Tibor Tscheke, \\ Head, Computer Science Department,\\ Universit\"{a}tsdruckerei,\\ H.~St\"{u}rtze AG,\\ Beethovenstra$\beta$e 5, \\ D--8700 Wurzburg, \\ West Germany. Kris Holmes and Chuck Bigelow also report that they have a bitmap IPA font. See {\bf Lucida}. %\paragraph{Date of information} June 7, 1988. \subsection{Ridgeway} A phonetic alphabet has been developed by Thomas Ridgeway for a large subrange of American Indian languages. The first active projects using this are in Salish and Navajo. This font is presently being tested and will be available from the Humanities and Arts Computing Center at the University of Washington in early fall 1988. \subsubsection{Contact} See under {\bf Tamil} above. \end{document} ----- Tang Guan Yaw/Patrick International:+61 62 68 8185 Local: (062)68 8185 Dept. of Computer Science, ACSNET/CSNET: gyp@csadfa.oz Telex:ADFADM AA62030 University College, UNSW, ADFA, ARPA: gyp%csadfa.oz@uunet.uu.net Canberra. ACT. 2600, AUSTRALIA. UUCP: ...!uunet!munnari!csadfa.oz!gyp