Comments on: Using IPA fonts with Mac OS X: The Comprehensive Guide

By: HL Halliday

HL Halliday — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 13:36:35 +0000

I really want to thank you for posting this (even if you posted it ages ago … having it up still allowed me to utilize it today). My husband is taking Graduate Classes in Reading Instruction and his current course is linguistics and phonemics. We use our Mac as our main computer and when I realized we needed linguistic symbols for his recent assignment (a powerpoint dealing with phonemics and linguistic characters) I went on a search to find a font to DL to accomplish the task at hand. Well, a lot of what I found was windows based … until I came across your site. You walked me through what I needed to set up our computer to get this job done and while we’re not super linguists I wanted to thank you profusely for your ‘help’.
(Though I did run into an oddity. I can’t pull up Charis as a font on Word 08 … yet I can find and utilize it in NeoOffice … and even though I can’t pull it up as a font in Word, I can still switch to IPA (on the menu) and hit shift and still gain all of my characters … no idea why it works … but it DOES work! Though, if you know how to fix this remedy I’d like to know as well!)
Again. Thanks.

Sincerely,

HL Halliday

By: V

Tue, 19 Jan 2010 15:49:12 +0000

You made my Windows-Mac conversion much easier. Thanks a lot!

By: Yann

Yann — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 11:26:12 +0000

You saved my life!!!! (Or at least tonnes of hours of it).

Thank you so much for this very clear and efficient “how-to”.

By: Nicholas Grimes

Nicholas Grimes — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 22:43:22 +0000

Thank you SO much for this! I had downloaded Duolos and could not find the symbols I was looking for via Word’s Insert>Symbol command, and although I could not get Charis to install correctly (it doesn’t show up on Words list of fonts), Duolos is now working to my liking with the Keyboard download! :D

By: Carl Bloomfield

Carl Bloomfield — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 02:49:08 +0000

Linguistic Mystic, you’re great!

I just couldn’t get my head around it until now!
This guide is the clearest I have found (and I’ve been looking for a long time!).
I wish I found it sooner!

This info should really be on the IPA website don’t you think!

Many thanks
Carl
;)

By: Kay

Kay — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:17:07 +0000

Thank you so much. This page has been so helpful. You are wonderful!

By: Ashley

Ashley — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 05:30:12 +0000

thanks so much for this helpful link! i’m in a french phonetics class and our teacher recommended that we download Doulos SIL, but i, and another student with a mac, found it incompatible–the file would not open, period.

this has solved -almost- everything. since our teacher used Doulos SIL on a PC to create a powerpoint, we can’t view the IPA characters on powerpoint for Mac OS X. i’ve even tried highlighting the characters (which show up as really odd nonsense symbols or just blanks) and changing the font to Charis SIL, but to no avail. do you have any suggestions for this? thanks again!

By: will

will — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 15:55:36 +0000

You need to select that in the input menus section.

By: AF

AF — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 15:57:44 +0000

I’m not getting the Palette frame in the Input Menu, and I don’t see the IPA-SIL option. Am I doing something wrong?

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