Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: IPA Font in LibreOffice

Here is a PDF I created that shows the Phonetic symbols/glyphs in the 
Gentium font recommended by a UCLA site.

http://libreoffice-na.us/gentium.pdf

My question really is still, if you have a font that has all the 
phonetic symbols in it, why would you want to use some othere means to 
re-create them?


This was made by two screen clips of FontForge's view of the 
characters/glyphs in a Gentium font.

The original email stated that the person wanted to have the IPA 
symbols/glyphs in his LO document.  He could do it in LaTeX, but he had 
trouble in LO without "TeX".  He wanted to know how to do this.

My answer is to use a working IPA font and use Insert>Special Character.
It works for me, just fine, on LO 3.4.1 on Ubuntu 64-bit.


On 09/04/2011 06:29 PM, NoOp wrote:
> On 09/04/2011 11:45 AM, NoOp wrote:
> ,,,
> > 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.
> Using 'Tex ttpa8':
>
> U+0044
> U+0115
> U+026A
>
> results in:
> ðĕɪ
>
> In LO 3.3.4 and LO 3.4.3 (linux) on my system.


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