>Subject: Re: [Finale] International Phonetic Alphabet > > >> From: Allen Fisher <al...@fisherartandtech.com> >> >> David-- >> >> Finale is not unicode compliant. What font are you trying to use? >> >> Allen > >and > >> >> Finale doesn't support Unicode. You need an old-fashioned >non-Unicode >> IPA font. >> >> - Darcy >> ----- >> djar...@mac.com >> Brooklyn, NY > > >and > >> From: Richard Yates <rich...@yatesguitar.com> >> >> Look here: http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/wells/fonts.htm > >Allen, Darcy, and Richard, > >Thank you all. I tried using one of the fonts Richard >suggested. It still gives me a bunch of rectangular boxes in >Finale, and I can't get it to work anywhere in any application. > >Maybe I'm installing the font incorrectly? I dragged it into >the top level fonts folder. That should work, but it didn't. >I next tried making sure that it showed up as active in >Linotype FontExplorer X. I then tried converting the font to >PS with True Blue. I did these in stages, but none of them >gave me a font that works in any situation.
I tried one of the ipa fonts at that link in Windows XP and Finale and it worked routinely. I can't help with Mac, but it seems to be normal font and the info says it works in MacOSX. Gotta be a way besides importing graphics. >This is too much like work! I'm going to use unicode in MS >Word to type my three words, export each as a pdf, open them >in Graphic Converter, trim/crop to the words and save them >tifs, and import those into Finale. At least I know that will >work! At this point, it is faster than messing with this. >Thank goodness I don't need IPA regularly! > >Thank you all for your suggestions. I now see why unicode in >Finale would be a really nice thing! > >David Froom >_______________________________________________ >Finale mailing list >Finale@shsu.edu >http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
