January 1997

Dear Linguist,

The enclosed files constitute the SIL Encore IPA93 Fonts in TrueType 
format. Please read the provided electronic documentation for more specific 
information on the fonts.

The Summer Institute of Linguistics (SIL) is an organization of
linguists dedicated to the study and promotion of the thousands of
minority languages around the world. The International Publishing Services 
serves SIL by developing products to assist in the publication of
linguistic texts.

We are happy to make these IPA fonts available to the general
linguistic community at no charge. More SIL fonts, containing a much
richer phonetic character set (1300+ characters) can be obtained at a
reasonable cost by using the order form provided in the electronic
documentation.

You may (and are encouraged to) share these fonts with your friends
and co-workers, but with the following restrictions:

	* All files must be copied together, including this one.
	* No fee may be charged for the fonts

Even though these fonts are "free", SIL retains all copyright and
ownership of the included fonts and reserves the right to restrict
their use and distribution at any time. They may not be used as a
basis for other fonts. They may be placed on bulletin boards, etc.
but cannot be included in (or bundled with) any commercial product
including hard disks or CD-ROMs without specific written permission.

User Support
SIL International Publishing Services
7500 West Camp Wisdom Road
Dallas, TX 75236
(972) 708-7495
fonts@sil.org


        Installing fonts on the Macintosh

To use the TrueType version of the fonts you must be running System 7 
(or System 6.0.5 or later with TrueType INIT*). To install them, drag the 
TrueType suitcases of the fonts you want to use into your closed System 
Folder (use the Font/DA Mover with System 6). Consult your Macintosh 
documentation for additional help.

        SILKey

"SIL IPA93 Kbd" file included in this download must be used with the SILKey 
keyboard translation program. SILKey can be downloaded from the SIL WEB 
server at "http://www.sil.org". SILKey is a suite of programs that can be 
used to modify the behavior of the Macintosh keyboard when typing in any 
standard Macintosh word processor. . (View the "SIL IPA93 Kbd Doc" file 
for more information.)


          CHANGES FOR VERSION 1.2

***Linking Character***

Character 237 in the original (1.0) IPA fonts was a non-spacing diacritic.
This really should have been a spacing character. Although the IPA calls
that character a "Bottom Tie Bar" (analogous to the Top one in code 131),
it signifies "Linking (absence of a break)" and is used to link two sounds
that are written with a space between them. Hence, these fonts have 237 as
a spacing character.


***Doulos Character Spacing***

After a number of comments from users, we have "relaxed" the spacing of the
SILDoulosIPA font to conform to that of the SILDoulos fonts in the SIL Encore
Fonts. This means that there will be more spacing between the characters,
making the text easier to read. This also means that texts set in the original
SILDoulosIPA will have different line breaks if opened on a computer with the
new SILDoulosIPA. If you have a strong reason to retain the original spacing,
do not install this new font. We do however recommend that you use this new
font.


***Sophia Dieresis***

The three dieresis characters (45, 95, 208) in the SILSophiaIPA font now have
dots spaced further apart.


***Manuscript Space Width***

The space character in the SILManuscriptIPA font is now (reliably) equal in
width to the other characters. 


            CHANGES FOR VERSION 2.00

code 47 changed to a forward slash
code 63 changed to a glottal stop
code 130 changed to a reversed e
code 160 changed to no character due to problems in WinWord
code 185 changed to a barred reverse glottal stop
code 192 changed to a reverse glottal stop
code 201 changed to a superior m
code 203 changed to a superscript left tail n
code 207 changed to a closed epsilon
code 212 changed to a superscript eng
code 214 changed to a hyphen dash
code 251 changed to a barred reverse glottal stop

SILKey keyboard translation file (IPA93) added
