typing IPA font into Word document

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typing IPA font into Word document

Is anyone familiar with some convenient way of typing the IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) font in a Word document. Word doesn't even recognize the IPA font I have installed. The only thing I have been successful with is painfully inserting the font one by one using the Character Palette into TextEdit.

Is there another IPA font that is more compatible? I thought all truetype fonts would work... Is there another program I need to use the keyboard to type a strange font?

G4/533/DA, Mac OS X (10.4.11), Microsoft Word v. 10.1.4, IPAKiel truetype font

Posted on Sep 10, 2008 3:44 PM

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Answer 1

ali brown

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Sep 10, 2008 4:46 PM in response to NewZoo

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Tom Gewecke

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Sep 10, 2008 5:18 PM in response to NewZoo

Is anyone familiar with some convenient way of typing the IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) font in a Word document.

If you do not want to use the Character Palette, then you can download and install an IPA keyboard layout from this site:

http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?siteid=nrsi&item_id=ipa-silkeyboard

Whether it will make all the characters you need I don't know. For more info, see

http://m10lmac.blogspot.com/2007/01/typing-in-international-phonetic.html

This advice assumes you are using Word 2004 or higher. Word X is not capable of doing IPA in any useful way.

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Tom Gewecke

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Sep 11, 2008 3:14 AM in response to NewZoo

I am using Word X, so I will have to upgrade.

That's too bad. Of course you also can use just about any other word processor, such as TextEdit, Pages, iText, Nisus Writer, Mellel, Abiword, NeoOffice, OpenOffice, StarOffice, etc (but not Appleworks, which like Word X is too old).

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Answer 4

Oct 14, 2008 8:04 PM in response to NewZoo

Hey! Go here...
http://linguisticmystic.com/2007/03/08/using-ipa-fonts-with-mac-os-x-the-compreh ensive-guide/

and follow the instructions. I just did it and it worked PERFECTLY, you just have to put the IPA kinda like a different language in the international pane. It also gives you links of what to download

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Tom Gewecke

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Oct 15, 2008 7:37 AM in response to risunochiizu

http://linguisticmystic.com/2007/03/08/using-ipa-fonts-with-mac-os-x-the-compreh ensive-guide/

One shortcoming of this page is that the part where is says "fire up any text editor" is inaccurate. You cannot use the still-common Word X or AppleWorks, because they cannot handle the Unicode which this kind of IPA requires. Word 2004 and Word 2008 should work OK however.

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NewZoo Author

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Sep 10, 2008 8:13 PM in response to Tom Gewecke

I am using Word X, so I will have to upgrade. Thanks so much for the helpful links.

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BDAqua

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Oct 14, 2008 11:53 PM in response to risunochiizu

Hi risunochiizu, and a warm welcome to the forums! 🙂

Great 1st post, thanks! 🙂

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