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

By: sam

sam — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 03:34:48 +0000

Thanks very much for providing this information. I followed your meticulous steps and downloaded NeoOffice (which Word users should not be scared of, it’s easy to use) and everything works fine.

(Can’t get the diacritics in the right place however. e.g. They always end up just after the phoneme, rather than underneath. But a minor problem!)

Thanks again.

By: Betsy

Betsy — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 00:33:42 +0000

Works wonderfully with Pages (the iWorks word processor that I prefer for longer more complex documents). I did find the icns file, possibly because I followed your advice to download the older version. Thank you so much! I have had these fonts for ages, but have never figured out how to get the keyboard to work.

I have one question: is it possible to get the affricates ʧ and ʤ? I had to insert them using the Character Palette. Is there any key combination that will type them in directly?

What a time saver! Thank you!!

By: Kim

Kim — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 12:03:48 +0000

For me, it doesn’t work (Charis SIL, Leopard, TextEdit). But it would be hard to switch anyway, because I have a Swiss keyboard. I use PopChar instead (), which is also useful, if you don’t have to type long texts in IPA.

By: will

will — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 16:49:19 +0000

Dewin,

To get Schwa, try pressing Option + e, and then a space. That should work :)

Will

By: dewin

dewin — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 16:31:47 +0000

Thanks, it is working just like you said, I also am running Leopard and it works fine in text edit. I cannot find the schwa symbol. I have typed every key with the shift down. Do you know what I am leaving out, surely there is a schwa. I am a voice teacher and the neutral vowel sound “uh” is very important to the method. Thanks

By: Brad

Brad — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 06:24:34 +0000

Thanks! Very awesome and everything works exactly as described. Appreciate the time you put into compiling this information.

By: will

will — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 04:24:34 +0000

Alright, a few questions for everybody having these troubles:

1) What program are you trying to use? MS word is known to have issues with IPA and these input methods, so you might want to try it in TextEdit, worst comes to worse, you’ll just have to copy-paste some IPA over

2) Once you’ve gone through these steps, is IPA-SIL an option in the International prefs, keyboard layouts menu? Can you get the little velar nasal (ŋ) to show up in the menubar?

Also, by the way, this still does work in Leopard, the newest version of OS X. I’m not sure what’s up with the missing .icns file, but it’s possible that it’s no longer required. Let me know the answers to the above questions, and maybe I’ll be able to help.

By: David Sheppard

David Sheppard — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 03:34:50 +0000

I have the same issue as Chris (above): –missing icns file. Keyboard file installed, but no matter what, no IPA comes through. What do I do?

regards,
ds

By: Lindsay Kirkpatrick

Lindsay Kirkpatrick — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 02:40:39 +0000

Hey!

Thanks for the great write-up, but I as well am having the same issue as Chris ^

I have placed everything in the right spot, however I cannot type up in IPA no matter what I do, would that missing icns file have something to do with it? Is there anyway you could host the .dmg file you used to create this write up as there may have been a change since you downloaded it last?

The only keyboard layouts available for download were created August 20/2007 so I would suppose they did something different this time around.

Thanks.

By: Chris Weigand

Chris Weigand — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 02:59:54 +0000

I’ve done the whole setup, but have two issues:

1) I never saw the IPA-SIL.icns file in the layout download. There was only the IPA-SIL.keylayout file and the PDF file. I did drag the IPA-SIL.keylayout file to the right place, but got the impression there might have been some version update or something which eliminated the need for the other file. Did I miss something?

2) All I really want to do so far is not to type in IPA but to read it in Safari, because my linguistics instructor said that Lucida Sans Unicode needs to be installed. LSU is still not showing in my list of Safari fonts, so there must be something else I need to do to get it from the library/fonts place to Safari. If anyone can explain to a dummy like me about this….

Thanks!