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From: emma@russell.Stanford.EDU (Emma Pease)
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Subject: Re: IPA and ``wordprocessing''?
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Date: 26 Mar 91 18:15:35 GMT
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In <1991Mar25.102135.239@bsu-ucs.uucp> 00prneubauer@bsu-ucs.uucp writes:

>BTW, I have also managed to build a sans serif version of the fonts. 
>The WSU people who made up the IPA font on ymir left the original CM
>code intact when they could, so there is code for sans serif, but they
>obviously never tested it.  There were several characters where the
>sans serif code had to be modified.  It did things like refer to
>points on the nonexistent serifs.  I can supply the mods to anyone
>who is interested.  (Don?)
>========

Let me add my two cents, I have also been modifying and extending the
WSU IPA.  Several years ago not knowing of the WSU work, I also began
work on an IPA (more or less as the people around here needed the
characters).  When I compared my stuff with the WSU stuff, I found I
preferred some of my characters, and, that I had some stuff that they
didn't have. (We had a person here a few years ago working on a
Hausa-English dictionary, so, we have such things as hooked capital D,
B, and K.)  If people are interested in looking at them, they can
anonymous ftp them from csli.stanford.edu,
pub/TeXfiles/Phonetic.tar.Z.  

At the moment, I am trying to improve a few characters and trying to
adapt the style files (latex) to use the Mittelbach/Schoepf font
scheme.  

Emma Pease
emma@csli.stanford.edu