John Jason Jordan wrote:
First, I am a student of linguistics and I need a font that has a full
set of characters for the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). There
are several such fonts available, and most are free, but they all have
issues, except for Junicode. Plus, Junicode is attractive. Therefore I
use it as my default font in all programs that allow setting a default
font. In OOo I not only set it as the default font in Tools > Options,
but also the font for all the styles in my Default template. So that
explains how the font name got into the document - it was written with
Junicode from the beginning.
If you have issues with the IPA characters in the DejaVu fonts, I
suggest you email them. They are constantly updating them. See the
contact email addresso on their wiki page at
http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page .
When I wrote the document I did not mean to imply that one had to use
Junicode in order to create the brackets. Certainly any font will do.
It's just that if you are creating brackets for work in phonology your
brackets are going to need IPA characters.
As for embedding fonts into web pages I have a fairly dim understanding
of it. You can set a font in the tags for the document, but each user
can tell their browser to use a different font and to override the font
tags on a web page. For example I have a sight-impaired friend who sets
her browser to display fonts really large. I also know that there is a
list of core fonts that web designers use in order to maintain
compatibility. These core fonts are supposed to be installed on all
computers regardless of platform, so a web designer can ensure that the
viewer will see what the designer wanted by just sticking to the core
fonts.
There are the Microsoft Web core fonts which Microsoft at one time
offered for free on the web. The stopped this because Linux distros were
including automatic downloading in their installation, effectively
making these fonts default Linux fonts. However, while no one can compel
Microsoft to continue to provide them, the fonts remain free for any
user. They are available at
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=34153 . Note that
these fonts are now old versions. Updated versions come with the
Microsoft and Macintosh operating systems. Some of these updated
versions contain a IPA characters.
They are not “supposed to be installed on all computer regardless of
platform”. I believe a number of Linux distros do include them, but
there is no regulation that they must be included.
Still, if you indicate in a web page that one of these fonts is to be
used, there is a good chance that it will be the font used on most
machines that view that web page.
Even so a user can override the settings in a page.
Yes.
Whether one can actually embed a font into a web page is a question
that is above my job level.
You can, but different browsers interpret different methods of
embedding. So generally, it is not considered advisable to embed fonts
on a HTML web page. Use PDF instead if you really want your document to
be fixed format, including fonts.
I do know that you cannot embed into a web
document a formula like the ones I use to create brackets. I know
because when I uploaded the index.html page to my web site the bracket
was an empty hole when viewed in a browser. I had to create the bracket
as a graphic and link the graphic to that place in the page.
Yes, though you can probably use mathml. Or, again, use PDF.
Jim Allan
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