From: Peter_Constable@sil.org
Date: Fri Nov 15 2002 - 19:26:35 EST
On 11/15/2002 02:59:11 PM Jim Allan wrote:
>Yet I note the schwa used in the sample does not match the other vowel
>letters in style or width, apparently here borrowed from a different font.
Definitely an ecclectic font (and, unfortunately, illegal -- I won't
mention the face name or the owners, though they probably recognise their
property).
>This brings up the question of whether the sample is in other ways a
>typographical compromise. I have seen popular books of linguistics that
>for typographical reasons used a Greek gamma in place of the IPA gamma
>and a delta in place of the ð symbol.
>
>Could this be happening here?
No. I know that the person who created this had access to a larger glyph
repertoire, and could have chosen the Latin gamma if they had wanted. They
were clearly following some other precedent.
- Peter
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