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From: rcopm@koel.rmit.oz (Paul Menon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: I.P.A (Phonetic Alphabet) & Scripts
Message-ID: <417@koel.rmit.oz>
Date: 25 Apr 88 01:27:19 GMT
Organization: RMIT Comm & Elec Eng, Melbourne, Australia.
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Keywords: Anyone Have it?


  Does anyone know whether the I.P.A. (International Phonetic Alphabet) font
  is available for the Macintosh?  If so, I would appreciate a copy (if PD)
  or directions to its source.
    
    Sticking with fonts, does the Mac Font Manager support arbitrary 'accents'
an any character?  A true IPA character set would need one unless a special
Word-Processing/Type-Setting program is used.  By 'accents' I mean a set of
super/sub marks that can be applied to any of the characters in the
font.  The normal (English) Font Manager allows a very restricted set, namely
grave, acute, etc and then only to a specific set of characters.  If the new
Font Manager (or Script Manager) supports exotic scripts like Kanji, etc, then
does this mean that a font like IPA would need to be a script by itself?  I
would appreciate any clarification.

Thankyou.
 
Paul Menon.

    Dept of Communication & Electronic Engineering,
    Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology,
    124 Latrobe St, Melbourne, 3000, Australia
 
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