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In article <1chsjcINN771@uwm.edu> hahn@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (David James Hahn)  
writes:
> > This may reveal a pathetically low level of technology, but does  
anyone have
> > an IPA font that could be used with an Epson LQ-500 24-pin dot-matrix
> > printer on an IBM (using DOS 3.21 or so)?
> > 
> > Alternatively, a Macintosh IPA font?
> > 
> > ---Ron Fein
> > 
> Is there any program or font available with IPA for the PC at all?
> I've never seen one.  The Mac has all kinds of stuff for linguistics,
> what's up?  I don't know nothin'  about fonts (i.e. all the lingo).

Blame Bill Gates. Windows supports TrueType but not zero=-width
(non-advancing) characters. There are some postscri[pt fonts that
can be used, including Stone Phonetic IF you have software that
supports kerning. Chuck Bigelow has not finished Lucida IPA.

I provide in-house support at U Chicago on a character by character
basis for the PC. We have lots of Mac fonts of course, and I am
working on a NeXT font. But to encourage linguists to work on
a PC is like distributing dirty needles to drug addicts.

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Eric Schiller                              schiller@sapir.uchicago.edu
Dept of Linguistics, Univ. of Chicago      schiller@whorf.uchicago.edu