At 08:18 22.09.97, you wrote:
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>I have come unstuck in trying to put phonetic transcription into Wordperfect
>5.1. Can anyone help solve the problem ? I also have access to Word 6 for
>Windows 95 if that provides an easier solution.
[...]
Dear Susan,
The SIL (Summer Institute of Linguistics, in Dallas, Texas) offers a
freeware package of IPA fonts, alternatively for PC/Windows and MacIntosh
computers. The version for Windows contains scalable fonts of the
International Phonetic Alphabet with 1990 Kiel revisions (the standard IPA
discrete characters and non-spacing diacritics as well as some
suprasegmental and puncuation marks). They come in three different
typefaces (similar to Times, similar to Helvetica sans serif, and similar
to Courier monowidth) and can be installed either in PostScript Type 1 or
in TrueType formats. You can order them by e-mail or download them from
various sites which are linked at the following address:
http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/comp.speech/Section1/Fonts/sil.ipa.html
If you have Windows '95, you only have to run the SIL-IPA install routine
and then can get the special characters (or diacritics etc.) in Word by
selecting them from the Insert-Special characters submenu. Once installed
under Windows, They should be available in WordPerfect as well (that is, if
you are running WordPerfect under Windows), but I am no expert for
WordPerfect, and it could be that you have to change your WordPerfect
printer driver settings before you can print the fonts in WordPerfect.
I find them useful not only for phonetic transcriptions in the strict
sense, which I as a non-linguist rarely do, but also for putting
diacritical marks under translitterations of Arabic names or macrons on
Latin vowels etc.
There is also an extended SIL-IPA set for which you have to pay, see the
info on the webpage quoted above.
Yours,
Otfried
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