Font for IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet)

Mark Rimple

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Jan 7, 1994, 5:35:14 PM1/7/94

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Does anybody out there have or know where I can get a TrueType font for
IPA? I am a choral conductor and I use IPA for pronunciation, and was
curious where I can find such a font.

Thanks

Alan B. Cobo-Lewis

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Jan 7, 1994, 10:44:57 PM1/7/94

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Mark Rimple (mri...@astro.ocis.temple.edu) wrote:

: Does anybody out there have or know where I can get a TrueType font for
: IPA?

As a matter of fact, I just downloaded and installed an IPA font set this
afternoon. I got it from the Univ of Michigan archive, via anonymous ftp from
archive.umich.edu. I think you'll find it in the directory
windows/fonts/truetype (I think--the information's at work, and I'm at home;
if I'm wrong, it should be obvious what directory it's really in). You
want the self-extracting file sil-ipa12.exe Do NOT download sil-ipa.zip.
Although the .zip file will work, it's an older version (this information comes
directry from the Summer Institute of Linguistics [SIL], which owns the
fonts). You'll get both TrueType and PostScript versions of three IPA
fonts: one serif, one sans serif, and one monospaced.

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Charles A. Bigelow

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Jan 8, 1994, 1:22:11 AM1/8/94

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Bigelow & Holmes has released a TrueType version of Lucida Sans IPA and Lucida
Sans Phonetic Alternate, free of charge, and we will permit copying and
re-distribution of those fonts, provided that the distribution is for
non-commercial purposes and preserves the trademark, copyright, and design
integrity, and is distributed with the "read.me" file. Ecological Linguistics,
P.O. Box 15156, Washington, D.C., 20003. will distribute/send you a copy if
you send them $5 and a SASE, but check with them for details. Many other people
in various linguistics departments have the fonts and are authorized to make
you a copy.

The Summer Institute of Linguistics in Texas has released several IPA fonts,
in TrueType and Type1, for which they charge a very reasonably low price, and
the fonts are well worth their nominal fee. For more info, contact

SIL Academic Bookstore
7500 West Camp Wisdom Road
Dallas, TX 75236 USA

JJST...@ukcc.uky.edu

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Jan 10, 1994, 10:05:55 AM1/10/94

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The same fonts are available via gopher at gopher.archive.merit.edu in the
linguistics archive. You can find both Macintosh and Windows TrueType and
(possibly) PostScript versions of the IPA as well as a few other specialized
fonts and software useful to linguistics students and teachers. For language
students or anyone interested, the archive is well worth checking out.

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Michael Covington

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In article <1994Jan7.2...@cronkite.ocis.temple.edu> mri...@astro.ocis.temple.edu (Mark Rimple) writes:
>

Yes! Try ftping from ai.uga.edu, /ai.phonetic.fonts.
Get sil-ipa.zip, which comes from the Summer Insititute of Linguistics
(an organization in Texas that trains missionaries and does very
good work on hitherto unrecorded languages).

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