Summary Details
| Query: |
IPA on the Internet
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| Author: | Manfred Prokop | |
| Submitter Email: | click here to access email | |
| Linguistic LingField(s): |
Phonetics
Phonology |
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| Summary: |
For Query: Linguist 11.890 Dear colleagues, in response to my query about rendering IPA symbols on web pages I have received the following most helpful replies (my Gawd, what would we do without helpful friends and colleagues and lists and internet and ...). Thank you, everyone! Manfred - --------------------------------- Fonts can be found at IPA's web site: http://www2.arts.gla.ac.uk/IPA/ipa.html Nicole Bocklet - ------------------- You may as well visit the following sites if you are a MS-Windows user. IPA Symbols, Unicode and the Web at IPA's site: http://www2.arts.gla.ac.uk/IPA/ipahtml.html Professor John Wells' web page http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/wells/ipa-unicode.htm If you are a Mac user, I assume the methods introduced above may not work. In the case of Unix system, there exist other problems. Please also read "Displaying IPA "found in my website at www.geocities.co.jp/CollegeLife-Labo/9551/ Yoshinari Fujino - ----------------------- For an answer to your question on how to render ipa characters in html, check out the thread 'on fonts' on the CreoList: http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?S2=creolist&q=unicode&s=&f=&a=&b= Vincent A. de Rooij - ------------ You can download my fonts from my web site given below. Henry Rogers rogers@chass.utoronto.ca 6072 Robarts Library http://chass.utoronto.ca/~rogers/ - ---------------- I have used the font Lucida Sans Unicode, which includes Greek, Cyrillic and IPA characters. I believe I got this font as part of the Corel Office Suite (WordPerfect). - ----------------- 1) Using graphic characters (small .GIF files) for each IPA symbol. James K. Tauber, at http://www.entmp.org/people/jtauber/ , has a (quite good) set of graphic characters called phonGIF -- public domain, I believe. If you want to know how phonGIF looks in a document, you may go to an article of mine, http://www.udc.es/dep/lx/cac/escrit96.html . Look at pp. 144-145 of the document (no, it doesn't have so many pages, it's an article which starts on p. 143). 2) If transcriptions are few, rendering each transcribed text as a graphic file. You first display the transcription on your screen with your wordprocessor, then capture the screen with any utility, crop the transcription, insert it in HTML as a GIF file. 3) Perhaps (perhaps), if you use Internet Explorer, choosing the IPA font (TrueType), with your HTML processor, then defining the character set for the HTML page. This doesn't work for all users, though, as browsers may not be able to display the font if it's not installed. A few IPA characters can be rendered directly in HTML as "entities" -- theta, epsilon, etc. Celso Alvarez C?ccamo - --------------- Here are some sites you may wish to visit for information on Internet IPA fonts: http://www.sil.org/computing/fonts/lang/IPA.html http://cgm.cs.mcgill.ca/~luc/phonetic.html http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~rogers/fonts.html http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/wells/fonts.htm http://www.sil.org/computing/fonts/encore-ipa.html Richard S. Kaminski - -------------- Here are a couple of sites that may be useful to you. Both of the following sites have discussions of issues relevant to your query. The INTERNATIONAL PHONETIC ASSOCIATION http://www2.arts.gla.ac.uk/IPA/ipa.html SAMPA (Speech Assessment Methods Phonetic Alphabet) http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/sampa/home.htm You might also want to search an index called Google at: http://www.google.com. Just search on International Phonetic Alphabet. Wayne Cowart - --------------- I think if you go to the Summer Institute of Linguistics home page, they have IPA fonts for the net. www.sil.org - ------------------ There is a set of symbols as graphical files (GIF) which you can use. This is OK if you need to make use of them only every once in a while, or if you can automate inserting them. The whole collection is in a file called phongif.zip, which you can probably locate on the Internet; otherwise I'll look for it and send it to you. Jeroen van de Weijer - ------------ I've been having the same problem myself. There are several things available, none of which is perfect: (1) Develop mini GIF files of various symbols and insert them as needed. Remember to use the ALT attribute to give a text-based alternative to the image. This may be your best bet. Photoshop 5.0 (if you can get it) lets you edit text, then save the file as a GIF (don't save over the original). (2) Use the <FONT FACE> tag to generate the right symbols. The problem is that you'd have to point users to where they can download the font onto their machine. If you have a small audience, such as a class, you may be able to get away with this. (3) Use Unicode encoding to generate the symbols. See http://www.unicode.org Although many Windows users have the right Lucida Sans Unicode font, it is difficult to find a shareware version for the Mac. It's technically the right solution, but not one that's ready from "prime time" yet. That may change in about 5 years. (4) Use ASCII substitutions borrowing creatively from the Symbol/Wingdings/Webdings fonts and using the strikethrough tag. Ugly but probably readable. Elizabeth J. Pyatt, Ph.D. - --------------------- See: http://www2.arts.gla.ac.uk/IPA/ipahtml.html The best is to have Netscape 4.5 and to check Unicode options in Fonts Menu. Miguel Rodriguez-Mondo?edo - ------------- LhaXayEm! Qhata mayka? As moderator of the CHINOOK list, I have experience in the process of rendering phonetic alphabets in ASCII ("typewriter letters"). In this case, the Grand Ronde Tribes of Oregon write Chinook Jargon in Americanist phonetics, which includes letters like a barred lambda with an apostrophe over it; a lowercase chi; and c with a hacek. Our group's consensus has been pro tempore to render the exotic instances -- you say you've dealt with the Greek letters, apparently -- as follows: [glottalized sounds]: <'> or <!> following consonant graph; the former allows English-style punctuation [hacek sounds]: <h> following graph [barred l]: <L> or <lh>; the latter allows English-style capitalization [barred lambda]: <tl> [schwa]: <E> as opposed to <e> which is a different sound [chi]: <X> as opposed to <x> which is a different sound [upsilon]: <U> " " " <u> " " " " " [iota]: <I> " " " <i> " " " " " [labialized sounds]: <w> following consonant graph [glottal stop]: <7> or <?>; the former allows English-style punctuation [(acute) accent]: <'> following vowel graph; no confusion with glottalization marker is possible It's been much like reinventing the wheel, since there already is a fine alphabet for the language. I'm bemused that we've had, in order to keep up with the technological "advance" of the Internet, to resort to many of the graphic tricks the linguists of a hundred years ago resorted to when they started writing down Northwest Indian languages. Dave Robertson - --------------------------------- I've puzzled over the same question. It seems it should be "hard-coded" into a graphic, say as .gif or .jpg. BUt if anyone as other suggestions then I'd be most interested. MAybe it's possible to define the characters in XML and serve them up accordingly in HTML.(?) Jennifer de Beer - ----------------- Unfortunately IPA is not one of the encodings supported by HTML, so I really don't think you can incorporate IPA characters as such in your HTML code. Probably one solution could be to create mini GIFs (with the help of a TrueType IPA font) one for each character, and then use them as is needed. Mario Saraceni - -------- I am interested in that question, too, so please post me any results. I doubt, however, that it is possible. You need a font to do it, and anyone who watches your site will need that font, too. There are some problems for installing new fonts on some browsers. If the (true type) font is all you want, I can send it to you. Johannes Reese reesej@uni-muenster.de - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Manfred Prokop (Prof. emeritus), MLCS Division of Germanic Languages, Literatures and Linguistics University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2E6 Tel. and Fax: (780) 467-6273 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- - |
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| LL Issue: | 11.917 | |
| Date Posted: | 21-Apr-2000 | |
| Original Query: | Read original query | |
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