You can find a free IPA font at our web site (www.sil.org), but
it's an 8-bit font (symbol-encoded), has presentation forms
encoded, and has lots of compromises. In spite of the
limitations, this font is very widely used among linguists. We
are working on a replacement that covers all of IPA and assumes
Unicode as the encoding. We don't have any guarantees yet on
when it will be available, but we're hoping to have it done
before November.
The new IPA font will handle diacritic positioning using tables
for the Graphite rendering engine (discussed at IUC16; see also
our web site). If MS does whatever is needed in Uniscribe to
handle generic stacking of Latin diacritics, then we will
likely also provide OT support. AAT is also a likely
possibility. OT and AAT support may not be available right
away, however. Also, we haven't yet decided whether we will
assign PUA codepoints to presentation forms or not.
Peter
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