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Here' some good news about the use of Phonetic symbols in Word/Windows. Aidan --- Begin Forwarded Message --- Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 15:43:39 +0100 From: John Wells <[log in to unmask]> Subject: keyboarding Unicode Sender: Teaching of phonetics mailing list <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] Reply-To: John Wells <[log in to unmask]> Message-ID: <[log in to unmask]> Thanks to the introduction of Unicode, recent Windows computers come ready-equipped with phonetic symbols. See my web page on the topic, http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/wells/ipa-unicode.htm . But this message is to draw people's attention to an interesting article on the matter of how best to keyboard characters that are not on the keyboard, using a poorly documented feature of Word. It is "Eureka!" by Dermod Quirke and Brian Holser. You can download a zipped version from www.dermod.dircon.co.uk/eureka.zip ; or, with the permission of the authors, I've placed an unzipped version on our own server at http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/wells/Eureka.doc . I've also taken their ideas further, applying them to the question of keyboarding IPA characters. You can read my follow-up article at http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/wells/eureka-ipa.doc . What this means is that everyone with recent versions of Windows and Word can now use IPA characters in documents without changing fonts. With my current set-up (Windows 2000, Word 2000, HP deskjet 930C, IE6/NN6) it basically all works marvellously. Once various remaining bugs have been ironed out - in Powerpoint, in Excel, with laser printers and so on - life will be truly wonderful. I'd love to hear whether Macintosh people, too, now have access to Unicode software (judging by http://www.hclrss.demon.co.uk/unicode/fonts_mac.html, not yet, except by remapping workarounds). Not to mention Unix/Linux. John Wells --- End Forwarded Message --- ---------------------- Aidan Coveney University of Exeter