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My sister needs the ability to design a
custom font. In particular, she needs to
design a set of phonetic symbols to
describe the pronunciation of words in
an extinct North American Indian language. 
There are several sounds which don't appear
in English, so she needs special symbols.

I seem to remember hearing about this
capability on the Mac. Can anyone tell
me:

1) What program can be used to do this?

2) Can an existing font be used and then
   modified (i.e. so she doesn't have to
   re-design a whole alphabet but, say,
   could take Times Roman and modify it)?

3) Can the custom font be used easily in 
   existing Mac word processing or page 
   layout programs?

4) What about hard copy output? Does she
   have to design a separate screen font
   from the one which is used for laser 
   output? (And could she output with good
   quality on a high-resolution device, 
   e.g. 1200 d.p.i.)?

5) Failing any of the above, does anyone
   know of the existence of fonts which
   might do the trick? E.g. fonts with
   loads of pronunciation symbols? Or, as
   a long shot, does anyone know of other 
   people working in linguistics with 
   Macs or PCs?

Any information anyone could give me on
this subject would be much appreciated.

Thanks,

Tim Shea

Sorry, I don't read this newsgroup. Please
reply to me directly at: shea@edson.East.Sun.COM.