No; if the characters are encoded in the "IPA Extentions" range, then
if I don't have the particular font, then Word will substitute Arial
or Tahoma or Times New Roman (I see no principle in how Word chooses
which font to use in substituting when several are available.)
Late to this thread, but ..
I agree Word's decisions about Font Substitution seem to be - what's the
polite word? - simplistic, and I don't believe they consider the characters
used in the font, just the Font itself. But you can override them as you
wish, so there shouldn't be a need for complicated editing, re-typing,
whatever.
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Enjoy,
Tony
www.WordArticles.com
You mean you don't have Charis SIL installed?
Why should I? First I used Gentium, but unfortunately they haven't
done the Phonetic Extensions yet, and their Combining Diacritics don't
properly combine with everything I need to.
So I use Times New Roman, whose phonetic characters look fine (they're
what the International Phonetic Association uses in the IPA chart, and
you can't get more official than that) and where the Combining
Diacritics work perfectly.
(I used to use Stone Phonetic on the Mac, which was a beautiful
PostScript version of phonetic characters based on StoneITC.)
Then font substitution could
possibly choose some crazy symbol font as a substitute font, and mess
things
up.
No; if the characters are encoded in the "IPA Extentions" range, then
if I don't have the particular font, then Word will substitute Arial
or Tahoma or Times New Roman (I see no principle in how Word chooses
which font to use in substituting when several are available.)
If you choose a sensible substitute font, everything should be fine.
Or, since it comes for free, download Charis SIL. It looks better than
fonts
with the IPA characters that came with older Office or Windows versions
(...
I haven't checked Vista much, and Win7 not at all yet).
I don't know about older PC versions. Just this morning I started
setting up my new Windows 7 notebook -- I didn't think to look at the
range of fonts it includes.