David, Not sure if you're on Mac or PC, but I think the issue is the same. Because a non-unicode font is limited to 255 characters (actually less, for various reasons), unicode fonts need to "map" the glyphs to different positions in the font. Unicode has a much larger range (65535, I think) so it can afford to give glyphs positions in the character set over a much larger range. That is, in unicode, the glyphs are assigned numbers much larger than 255. For non-unicode fonts, the glyphs are therefore assigned to characters (number positions) that are less or equal to 255. I have the same problem with macrons. I use macrons a lot. In unicode, there is, for example, a macron-A, but this does not exist in my regular non-unicode fonts. Instead, I have a special font that maps macron-vowels to diaresis-vowels. So, every time I want a letter with a macron in this special font, I have to enter the letter with a diaresis. Really a pain in the butt, because I have to look up each character's corresponding position in my non-unicode font.
MS Word uses unicode, as do other Office products. If you copy a unicode font to Finale, it gets "confused", resulting in the boxes you see. (There's a more technical explanation, but I think I'm confusing enough as it is.) Shorter explanation: You will need to "map" each IPA glyph to the corresponding character in the non-unicode font. painful. Second, please help me beg MM for unicode. Hope this makes some sense. ---- David Froom <dfr...@smcm.edu> wrote: > > > 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. > > 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
