From: LOWIE@LET.RUG.NL (Wander Lowie)
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Subject: phonemic symbols
Date: 20 Nov 92 12:37:07 GMT
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I found this message on linguist a few weeks ago. Might be of any
help.


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> From: KAHREL@alf.let.uva.nl
> Subject: review
>
> WordPerfect and phonetic characters.
>
> Since a few weeks, Adobe offers a font generator that is very
> interesting for linguists. It's called "Adobe Typemanager for
> WordPerfect" (ATM for WP). In America, ATM for WP is sold under
> the name PrimeType. Apart from the names, the programs are
> identical. With ATM for WP, you can print documents on virtually
> any printer (LaserJets and clones, DeskJets, matrix printers,
> PostScript). The program is comparable with familiar font
> generators like Facelift, Publishers's Powerpak, Lines Letters
> &c, Glyphix, etc. However, ATM for WP has a number of advantages
> over similar programs. I'll mention a few.
>
> Firstly, ATM for WP prints PostScript Type 1 fonts on virtually
> any printer. This is good news, since Adobe offer a number of
> phonetic fonts: IPA and Alternate, available in Times, Stone
> Serif and Stone Sans. IPA contains most of the characters and
> symbols defined in the IPA character set, while the Alternate
> character set contains a number of other phonetic characters. In
> all, most characters defined and described in Pullum and
> Ladusaw's "Phonetic Symbol Guide" and by Ladefoged (1990, "The
> revised International Phonetic Alphabet", Language 66, 3) are
> represented in Adobe's character sets. And if you miss
> characters, such as the barred b (a b with a slash through it),
> in many (if not most) cases you can make it using WP's overstrike
> function. And if you're really desperate you can use a font
> editor like Fontographer or Fontmonger to make your own
> characters. Apart from Adobe's phonetic fonts, other non-Latin
> Type 1 fonts are available, such as Cyrillic from Adobe,
> Monotype, and Cassidy & Green, and Japanese from Adobe. And there
> are numerous other Type 1 fonts available on Compuserve (see
> Mendelson's review in PC Magazine Vol. 11, no. 18, October 1992).
>
> Secondly, ATM for WP includes a DOS and a Windows version, unlike
> any other font generator. For example, Facelift is available in
> two non-compatible versions: one for WP for DOS, and one as a
> general Windows font generator. ATM is available for WP DOS and
> WP for Windows. Using WP's own printer drivers in Windows, this
> means that documents created in WP for DOS can be retrieved in
> WP for Windows without losing any formatting.
>
> Thirdly, since ATM for Windows uses Type 1 fonts to print to any
> printer, you can print preliminary versions of an article on your
> laser, inkjet, or matrixprinter at home. When you're ready to
> print the final version, you take it to a high resolution printer
> or any other PostScript device (Linotype, for example). Apart
> from print quality, the printed text will look the same: all
> formatting is preserved.
>
> And finally, and this appeals to me very much: the program is
> completely open. By this I mean that you can determine how fonts
> are installed, which is very pleasant. For example, you can
> determine yourself where characters are installed in the WP
> printer driver. I used this feature as follows. In the past, I
> have been using the eng character (in WP, character 211 in
> character set 1) and the underdot (character 0 in character set
> 2). I have always taken for granted that these characters, since
> they were not present in the fonts I had been using, were printed
> graphically by WP. This was far from perfect, but I could (and,
> like many others, had to) live with it. Now, Adobe put their
> phonetic characters in character set 12. Rather than modifying
> all my files to replace the codes for the eng and underdot to
> their Adobe codes, I just added a few lines to the installation
> file that ATM uses to install fonts. Specifically, I added a line
> that instructs ATM to install the eng in position 1,211, and a
> line to insert the underdot in position 2,0. The result is that
> both the underdot and the eng occur twice in the character maps
> in my printer driver: in their "Adobe" position, so to speak, and
> in their standard WP position. For good measure I also remapped
> the barred h and barred d to their WordPerfect positions in
> character set 1. I think Adobe could have taken the trouble to
> remap the relevant characters to the WP positions. But the point
> I want to make here is that ATM allows you to influence the
> installation process to a very large extent. This is a feature
> not offered by any other font generator. (Well, this is not
> entirely true: you can also remap characters using the Type
> Director program. But remapping in Type Director is not
> documented, and Type Director does not know Type 1, so it won't
> give you phonetics.)
>
> In conclusion, I think that ATM for WP DOS is an extremely useful
> program.
>
> Peter Kahrel
> University of Amsterdam
> kahrel@alf.let.uva.nl
>
>
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