On 29 Oct 2005, at 9:45, John Jordan wrote: > I spent some time this morning trying to get the TIPA fonts > installed on my Windows computer.
OK, I did it. I found a trial version of Crossfont (Windows program) that did the trick. I now have them installed on my Windows computer. But all was for naught. These fonts appear to be encoded so that you use caps and other characters to insert the characters. Thus, there are no real caps. Evidently you are supposed to use some other fonts for regular typing and switch to these fonts when you want an IPA character. That is not useful to me. I am looking for a font like Gentium which has everything in one font. Except Gentium has only regular and italic, no bold or bold-italic, and it lacks a lot of other typesetting niceties (true small caps, ligatures, etc.). Plus it is owned by SIL. Another problem with the TIPA fonts is that they are not complete -- no combining diacritics, for example. In fact, they have few diacritics at all. If I had the time I could learn to use Fontforge and then use it to redo these fonts, adding the missing characters and changing the encoding to unicode standards. But that project is not possible for me at this time. :(
