Re: A Proposition

On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Irina Rempt wrote:

>On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, David Peterson wrote:
>
>> You know, we're all trying to write to each other with things that sort
>> of represent different versions of the IPA, and it's really confusing (at
>> least to me).  I have a solution (that is, if everyone is writing from
>> either a Mac or IBM clone).
>
>...
>
>> It's called Dr. Berlin's Foreign Font archive.
>
>Which doesn't help on a mailing list; not only doesn't everybody
>use Mac or Windows (I use Linux, for instance),
Unix, here.

>but the list is text-based and we'd like to keep it that way.
Yes, thank you very much! It's a fine idea, but not really practical
in this medium. Perhaps the proposition could be modified by choosing
a version of ASCII IPA out there and stick to that.

Padraic.

> Irina