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What about fonts with the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) symbols?

I summarized Scott Brumage's recent post for the FAQ:

Shareware or free (PostScript Type 1 and/or TrueType):

• TechPhon Seems to lack some characters and has no zero-offset characters (for accents).

• PalPhon

  A phonetic font which you can get by anonymous ftp from mac.archive.umich.edu. It is called PalPhon. There are actually two fonts: the basic PalPhon and one with additional accents and symbols called PalPi. The package includes some documents on using the fonts as well.

• SIL-IPA

  SIL-IPA is a set of scalable IPA fonts containing the full International Phonetic Alphabet with 1990 Kiel revisions. Three typefaces are included:

  • SIL Doulos (similar to Times)
  • SIL Sophia (similar to Helvetica)
  • SIL Manuscript (monowidth)

  Each font contains all the standard IPA discrete characters and non-spacing diacritics as well as some suprasegmental and puncuation marks. Each font comes in both PostScript Type 1 and TrueType formats. The fonts are also available for Microsoft Windows.

  These fonts were designed by the Printing Arts Department of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, Dallas, Texas.

Shareware or free (TeX):

METAFONT sources of the phonetic symbols developed by Tokyo-Shoseki-Printing and Sanseido are available. The font contains all of IPA (Internatioanl Phonetic Alphabet) symbols.

You can get phonetic symbols METAFONT (named TSIPA) from

ftp.foretune.co.jp:/pub/tools/TeX/Fonts

The IP address for ftp.foretune.co.jp is 133.123.1.2.

Commercial:

Linguist's Software Adobe (ITC Stone Phonetic [#255], Times Phonetic [#278])

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