5.0756 Rs: Fonts and Chinese W/P (4/78)
Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Tue, 10 Mar 1992 20:13:22 EST
Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 5, No. 0756. Tuesday, 10 Mar 1992.
(1) Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1992 16:43:41 +0200 (EET) (39 lines)
From: LBJUDY@VMSA.TECHNION.AC.IL
Subject: RE: 5.0747 Fonts
(2) Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1992 02:08 GMT +0100 (17 lines)
From: J%org Knappen <KNAPPEN@VKPMZD.KPH.Uni-Mainz.de>
Subject: Re: 5.0747 Fonts
(3) Date: Tue, 10 Mar 92 2:38:16 MET (12 lines)
From: Harry Gaylord <galiard@let.rug.nl>
Subject: IPA fonts
(4) Date: Mon, 9 Mar 1992 19:06:39 -0800 (PST) (10 lines)
From: Nicholas Heer <heer@u.washington.edu>
Subject: Re: 5.0747 Chinese W/P
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Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1992 16:43:41 +0200 (EET)
From: LBJUDY@VMSA.TECHNION.AC.IL
Subject: RE: 5.0747 E-Qs: Toolkit; Texts; S/W; Fonts; History (5/120)
Re: IPA fonts for the PC (Judy Baker's request)
There'll probably be a lot of responses to this (it's starting to
be a FAQ -- Frequently Asked Question) but here's my 2 cents' worth.
There are several companies that sell screen and/or printer fonts for
the PC; there are also printer font editors, some expensive and some
shareware. I know there are 2-3 or more versions of the IPA 'cos
companies kept throwing it at me when I was shopping for a printer
font for transliterated characters NOT included in the IPA (I finally
made my own with a shareware program). That was a while and I've
forgotten the companies' names, but if Judy Baker or anyone else
wants to send me private email I can dig them out; also the name
of the shareware program I ended up with (all this is at home and
I'm at work right now).
It depends of course on what printer you have. If it's an HP or
compatible laser, life is fairly simple; printer fonts, and font
editors, for 24 pin dot matrix printers seem much harder to find,
or were when I was looking for them.
That leaves screen fonts. Here the DLT (Duke Language Toolkit) is
the answer (it also does printer fonts but is very limited in the
printers it supports) -- make your own. Also either free or
shareware, I forget which (I have an old version but since in the
end I didn't bother with a screen font, having got used to seeing
graphics characters instead of letters with macrons etc., I don't
remember if I should have paid had I used it.)
NB I use Word for Dos (5.0) and the fonts work fine within it,
though I had a bit of a hassle defining the one I created to WORD
at the start.
Judy Koren, Haifa judyk@lib.technion.ac.il
or lbjudy@vmsa.technion.ac.il
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Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1992 02:08 GMT +0100
From: J%org Knappen <KNAPPEN@VKPMZD.KPH.Uni-Mainz.de>
Subject: Re: 5.0747 E-Qs: Toolkit; Texts; S/W; Fonts; History (5/120)
Re: IPA fonts for PC
If you are using TeX (or a macro paket above it like LaTeX) there are the
wsuipa fonts. They are not confined to a special kind of machine, they are
available on macs, pcs, ataris, amigas, even acorn archimedes', and, of course
mainframes.
They are available via anonymous ftp eg. from ymir.claremont.edu.
You can exchange documents written in TeX (or LaTeX ...) from one computer
to another via e-mail or ftp, because the input uses only printable ASCII.
Yours, JK
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Date: Tue, 10 Mar 92 2:38:16 MET
From: Harry Gaylord <galiard@let.rug.nl>
Subject: IPA fonts
Adobe has produced two IPA fonts which will be available soon. They are in their
Stone typeface. They have both a serif and sans. This has been done in
cooperation with the IPA itself or several of its leading members.
The fonts are very attractive.
Harry
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Date: Mon, 9 Mar 1992 19:06:39 -0800 (PST)
From: Nicholas Heer <heer@u.washington.edu>
Subject: Re: 5.0747 E-Qs: Toolkit; Texts; S/W; Fonts; History (5/120)
Graham Davies inquires about a Chinese word processor for the Mac.
Linguist's Software, Box 580, Edmonds, WA 98020, USA, (206) 775-1130,
offers a program called MacChinese for $99.95.
Nicholas Heer