Mark,
I have mailed you some better examples off-list.
Adrian
On 1 Oct 2008, at 23:24, Mark Swindell wrote:
Never mind that last. I see the list and examples at the bottom of
the page. It would be nice if the jpg were of higher resolution so
I could see them more clearly.
Mark
On Oct 1, 2008, at 10:28 AM, Adrian Williams wrote:
We offer a digraphs font exactly as you describe.
The original typefaces were researched and developed
for use in education to teach children and adults (this version)...
http://www.clubtype.co.uk/fonts/sas/s460sample.html
Sassoon® Jolly Phonics Digraph fonts will enable you to write easy-
to-use pronunciation guides for children or adults.
This product is part of the larger Sassoon® Project...
http://www.clubtype.co.uk/fonts/sas/sasslist_com.html
Hope that helps?
Adrian
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On 30 Sep 2008, at 05:31, Mark Swindell wrote:
Devin,
Thanks for the link. I'm actually after something that I think
may not exist. It would be similar in function to an IPA font,
but with regular English character pairs whose kerning would be
reduced so that they would represent a single visual unit,
mirroring how they represent sound. "Good" would be "G oo d" and
"shallow" would be "sh a ll ow." It would require tweaking the
kerning between digraph letter pairs and dipthongs to tighten them
up, while keeping regular spacing between these double letters,
single letters, and words.
I'm not sure it's worth the trouble to create, but in teaching I
find that some children have a difficult time seeing that "sh" for
example, is not "s h" but rather its own phonetic unit. (A
parallel: until fairly recently, "ch" was the fourth letter of the
Spanish alphabet, though it was never represented with tighter
kerning... I think the Real Academia might have done away with
that one, as well as the "ll", at least for purposes of
alphabetizing. (Wikpedia: In 1994, it ruled that the Spanish
consonants CH (ché) and LL (elle) would hence be alphabetized
under C and under L, respectively, and not as separate, discrete
letters, as in the past.)
The idea was to be able to present text to kids written with these
combinations emphasized while retaining a somewhat natural look.
Mark,
On Sep 29, 2008, at 12:28 PM, Devin Asay wrote:
On Sep 29, 2008, at 12:34 PM, Mark Swindell wrote:
Does anyone here know if there exists a font that combines the
letters
that make phonemes, be they digraphs, dipthongs, or just multiple
letters (oo, ee, ea)?
For example, the word "cough" would have three phonemic chunks:
c - ou
- gh.
But the phonetic representations of the short o phoneme (ou) and
the /
f/ (gh) would be squished up against each other so they would be
recognized as a chunk, not as separate letters? Does this make
sense?
Not exactly sure what you are after. Would an IPA font do what
you wanted? You can get some very good ones from sil.org:
http://www.sil.org/computing/catalog/show_software_catalog.asp?by=cat&name=Font
HTH
Devin
Devin Asay
Humanities Technology and Research Support Center
Brigham Young University
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