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From: jcb@lfcs.ed.ac.uk (Julian Bradfield)
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Subject: Re: Fonts for IPA
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Date: 6 Jul 88 23:26:50 GMT
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In article <249@wjh12.harvard.edu> dow@wjh12.UUCP (Dominik Wujastyk) writes:
>In article <1466@csadfa.oz> gyp@csadfa.oz (Patrick Tang) writes:
>>Does anyone know where I can get hold of fonts for International
>>Phonetic Alphabet (IPA).
...
>Personally, I would never touch anything but TeX.  And coincidentally, an
>IPA has just been released by Washington Univ.  Being for TeX, it can be
>obtained at a range of resolutions and sizes, and can be printed on most
>printers.  Here is an extract from a memo of mine on the fonts that are
>[ Info on Washington IPA font ]

On the other hand, if you don't want to pay $100, and if like me you
wouldn't even consider paying $100 for a few bitmaps without the MF
source [general plea to the world---don't buy Metafont fonts without
the source: what's the point of a meta-font if you can't actually 
make fonts from it, but are constrained only to use the font in those
variations, at those sizes, for those printers, that the whims of the
distributor cater for?], you could drop me a note. I've
hacked together a few IPA symbols (the ones I've needed so far), and
I'd welcome reasons to extend my range. (Of course, the Washington
font is (probably) well-designed and coded, and will probably become
quite popular, so for an official long term use you would prefer them;
but if you just want a few symbols without worrying about long-term
compatibility, let me know.)