On 12/13/13 09:42, Rolf Turner wrote: > > > I apologise for the lack of articulateness in this question; I am > floundering a bit. Basically --- how can I obtain a font which will > render the symbols of the international phonetic alphabet? > > I tried "yum list font" just now (prompted by another posting on this > mailing-list) and got a catalogue of about a brazillion fonts, but none > that seemed to be related to the international phonetic alphabet. > > Searching through this catalogue for "international" or "phonetic" > turned up nothing. Searching for "IPA" turned up: > >> ipa-ex-gothic-fonts.noarch : Japanese Gothic-typeface OpenType font by IPA >> ipa-pmincho-fonts.noarch : Japanese Proportional Mincho-typeface OpenType font >> : by IPA > > which seem to pertain to Japanese rather than to the international phonetic > alphabet, so I don't *think* that these are anything to do with what I want. > > A client for whom I am consulting in respect of statistical analysis of some > linguistic data tells me: > >> The IPA font I used is called Ipa-samd Uclphonl SILDoulosL. I think it >> is one of the common available options in Microsoft, the other ones are >> Ipa-samm Uclphonl SILManuscript and Ipa-sams Uclphonl SILSophiaL. > But this is Micr$oft rubbish. Is there any way I get an international phonetic > alphabet font for Fedora so that I can see my client's data on my machine? > > BTW, I am (still) running Fedora 17. Have not had the courage to upgrade to 18 > or 19. My system is running very satisfactorily (except for the font problem that > I am having) and I strongly adhere to the principle "If it ain't broke don't fix it." > Well, looking at this page http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/wells/ipa-unicode.htm would suggest several fonts that display the characters. I used the KDE utility kcharselect to find the characters reference in the web page. I found that many fonts will display them just fine. One that didn't was Symbol Neu. -- Getting tired of non-Fedora discussions and self-serving posts -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
