On 29 Jan 2006, at 14:03, Guillermo wrote: > Hello, I would like to know. How I can write the phonetics symbols. > Thanks
You need to install a font that contains the IPA characters. There are free ones available from Summer Institute of Linguistics (SIL), although some people refuse to use them due to political and religious issues they have with SIL. A word about IPA fonts -- there are two different ways these fonts have been created. In the past the IPA characters were mapped to a regular keyboard and you printed out a "template" showing which keys were mapped to which characters. For example, to get an esh you used the capital S. That meant that you needed another font for regular typing and you would switch to the IPA font just when you needed IPA characters. The new way is to encode the font according to Unicode standards. Thus, you have the regular characters where you expect them to be. When you need IPA characters you don't have to change fonts, you just use Insert Character to find the character and insert it into your document. If you use SIL fonts the best one is Gentium. They have a new one called Charis that includes a bold and bold-italic version, which Gentium lacks. However, I think Charis is not as attractive as Gentium. Plus, they made the character height the same as the capitals so there is a white space above each character that can obliterate parts of other objects immediately above it (e.g., a graphic). --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
