[libreoffice-users] Re: IPA Font in LibreOffice

On 09/03/2011 12:11 PM, Manuel Kaufmann wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm having an issue with the IPA font in LibreOffice. I'm using the
> "TeX tipatt8" font I was doing all my text transcription to the
> corresponding phonetics symbols without any problem.
>
> But now, I'm trying to mark the allophones into my transcription. I
> found this Manual[1] that explains how to use this font with LaTeX,
> but I couldn't do it with LibreOffice.
>
> I tried with LaTeX and I could without any problem. Check the image below:
>
>    * http://www.diigo.com/item/image/1msf9/r7xp?size=o
>
> Can you help me?
...

It is always helpful if you let people know what version of LO /and/
what Operating System you are using.

On my system (linux Ubuntu 10.10), I have that font in:
/usr/share/texmf/fonts/type1/fkr/tipa
For some reason LO isn't picking up all the fonts in /usr/share
(discussed in a previous thread, but I can't recall the Subject just
now) - even when the font is installed as a system font.

In order to get the tipatt8 font to work in LO (versions 3.3.4 & 3.4.3)
I had to copy /both/ the tippa8.afm and tippa8.pfb to ~/.fonts. The font
now shows up when I scroll to select fonts starting with 'T'. Oddly
enough, rather than 'TeX tippa8' being displayed in the dropdown
selection, it is displayed as greek symbols'tippa8, so you need to look
closely after putting the .afm and .pfb in ~/.fonts

I can insert all of the characters in your example. Unfortunately the
character between 'e' and 'I' spaces (U+02D8) (˘) as a single character
so it is not shown as an accent to 'e' but as it's own character.
Perhaps someone more familiar with using dead/compose keys etc., (Johnny
Rosen?) can assist with that part.

Hope that helps.




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