Adobe Garamond: Unicode or IPA?

Guido Milanese

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Aug 31, 2004, 6:17:07 PM8/31/04

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I bought years ago the complete set of Adobe Garamond in all of its flavours
(small caps, oldstyle numbers and so on). I am using this font with LaTeX
and it's all right. But in a paper (LaTeX on a Linux box) I need some
particular glyphs of the International Phonetic Alphabet. These glyphs are
not available in this Adobe set, and therefore LaTeX substitutes Garamond
with the default font, Computer modern -- and it's a total desaster because
C.M. is completely different. I normally use Unicode input, but this is not
a problem.

I checked the Adobe website but did not see a IPA set. Any suggestion,
please? Also a rather complete Unicode Adobe Garamond would be nice!

Thanks.
Guido Milanese, Italy

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Aug 31, 2004, 7:09:40 PM8/31/04

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Guido Milanese wrote:

> I bought years ago the complete set of Adobe Garamond in all of its flavours
> (small caps, oldstyle numbers and so on). I am using this font with LaTeX
> and it's all right. But in a paper (LaTeX on a Linux box) I need some
> particular glyphs of the International Phonetic Alphabet. These glyphs are
> not available in this Adobe set, and therefore LaTeX substitutes Garamond
> with the default font, Computer modern -- and it's a total desaster because
> C.M. is completely different. I normally use Unicode input, but this is not
> a problem.
>
> I checked the Adobe website but did not see a IPA set. Any suggestion,
> please? Also a rather complete Unicode Adobe Garamond would be nice!
>
> Thanks.
> Guido Milanese, Italy

http://tinyurl.com/5febn =
http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=encore-ipa&_sc=1#801ab246

and
http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~rogers/fonts.html

Also, read:
http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/IPA/ipafonts.html
(The section "Phonetic Fonts for Windows"

For more,
Google IPA Fonts

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Mxsmanic

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Aug 31, 2004, 9:38:12 PM8/31/04

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Guido Milanese writes:

> I bought years ago the complete set of Adobe Garamond in all of its flavours
> (small caps, oldstyle numbers and so on). I am using this font with LaTeX
> and it's all right. But in a paper (LaTeX on a Linux box) I need some
> particular glyphs of the International Phonetic Alphabet. These glyphs are
> not available in this Adobe set, and therefore LaTeX substitutes Garamond
> with the default font, Computer modern -- and it's a total desaster because
> C.M. is completely different. I normally use Unicode input, but this is not
> a problem.
>
> I checked the Adobe website but did not see a IPA set. Any suggestion,
> please? Also a rather complete Unicode Adobe Garamond would be nice!

Thus far I've found only Times New Roman and Stone Sans IPA fonts.
There are specialized fonts designed specifically for the IPA but they
may not be suitable for any other use and they use non-standard
encodings (neither Unicode--for the non-Unicode versions--nor the usual
encodings used in other fonts).

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Guido Milanese

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Sep 1, 2004, 2:54:06 AM9/1/04

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Thanks for the answers and links. It seems, however, that no Unicode
Garamond is available, correct? In fact, a complete Unicode Garamond would
be interesting, because I us also ancient Greek... it's a pity Adobe (nor
other manufacturers, if I have seen correctly) does not still offer such a
font! Their Garamond is so elegant, and at high resolution is really
beatiful.

Grateful for any corrections to the above statements...

gm

Alan

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Sep 1, 2004, 4:10:11 AM9/1/04

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Guido Milanese <gmil...@mclink.it> wrote in message news:<ch2ta1$1gng$1...@newsreader2.mclink.it>...

> I bought years ago the complete set of Adobe Garamond in all of its flavours
> (small caps, oldstyle numbers and so on). I am using this font with LaTeX
> and it's all right. But in a paper (LaTeX on a Linux box) I need some
> particular glyphs of the International Phonetic Alphabet. These glyphs are
> not available in this Adobe set, and therefore LaTeX substitutes Garamond
> with the default font, Computer modern -- and it's a total desaster because
> C.M. is completely different. I normally use Unicode input, but this is not
> a problem.
>
> I checked the Adobe website but did not see a IPA set. Any suggestion,
> please? Also a rather complete Unicode Adobe Garamond would be nice!

Use FontForge <http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/> and add your own
glyphs. Put the Computer Modern glyphs in the background to act as a
guide, copy and paste in the appropriate Garamond glyphs to compose.
Save under a new fontname (not just filename) to avoid confusion.