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![]() ![]() Microsoft Word Open Document Weird Characters Install The CharisInstalling the font and keyboard layoutNow, double-click the CharisSIL(version).zip file that you saved to your desktop. Install this at the same time you install the Charis SIL font below, using the same instructions.So, download save them to your desktop (or a location of your choosing), and then proceed to the next step.Power User’s Summary: Download the Charis SIL IPA Font and the IPA-SIL keyboard Layout from the above links and save them someplace you can find them. Install this at the same time you install the Charis SIL font below, using the same instructions.SILIPA93 Fonts - These are desperately outdated, but occasionally necessary when reading other people’s old IPA. First, Double click “IPA-MACkbd.dmg” on your desktop. Otherwise, you can use “Go” -> “Go to Folder” and type in (~/Library).Place the four font files from the folder (CharisSILB.ttf, CharisSILBI.ttf, CharisSILI.ttf, CharisSILR.ttf) along with any of the optional fonts you’re installing into the ~/Library/Fonts folder (the “Fonts” folder inside the “Library” folder in your user directory.Now, the layout. If you’re on Mavericks or later (10.9+), go to your Home folder (/Users/yourname) and then to the “View” menu, then “Show View Options”, then check “Show Library Folder”. Take the CharisSILfontdocumentation.pdf file and move it to a safe place, it’s a handy guide to have around, and feel free to take a look at the readme and license files in the folder.It’s time to install the font and layout themselves:If you’re using OS X 10.7 “Lion” or later, Apple has hidden the /Users/yourname/Library (~/Library) folder from you by default. ![]() First, check “Show Keyboard and Character Viewers in the Menu Bar”, then, click the “Input Sources” (or “Input Menu”) tab inside the Keyboard Pane.Then, click the “+” button in the bottom left of the window, Choose “Others” in the left pane, and then “IPA Unicode 6.2(v.X)”, and check “Show input menu in menu bar”.Also, feel free to change the shortcut to switch input methods to make things faster for you down the road, under “Shortcuts”. Click the “Keyboard” Option. Setting up IPA Text Input on OS X 10.9 or higherOnce you’ve restarted, go to the System Preferences Application. Also, feel free to change the shortcut to switch input methods to make things faster for you down the road. Click the “Language and Text” (“International” on older versions), then, click the “Input Sources” (or “Input Menu”) tab inside the Language and Text Pane, and you’ll be presented with a window like this:In this window, make sure and select “Keyboard & Character Viewer” (to see what symbols are where at a glance) and “Show input menu in menu bar”. Setting up IPA Text Input on OS X 10.6-10.8Once you’ve restarted, go to the System Preferences Application. To enable this option, first, go through the steps above to get the font and keyboard set up, making extra sure to enable “Show input menu in menu bar”.Once you’ve done this, go to the little input menu in the menu bar, then click “Show Emoji and Symbols”. “But I don’t use IPA that often, and can’t memorize the keystrokes!”Since Mavericks (10.9), Apple has stealthily included another way to input IPA characters which is far less efficient for regular, long-form IPA entry, but good if all you need is the occasional character. Be very sure to select Charis SIL for your font in the document.Now, click the little menu in the menubar and select IPA Unicode (Version) MAC:Start typing and you’ll find yourself typing IPA symbols! You’ll slowly learn the reasonably intuitive set of key sequences (e.g: > then n for Angma, > then r for Alveolar Tap), and soon, you’ll be typing in IPA nearly effortlessly in nearly any application. Congratulations! You’re now set up to use the IPA on your mac.To test it out, fire up any text editor (OpenOffice, TextEdit, or even MS Word, if you insist) and open a document. Nobody wanna see us together downloadI’d highly recommend that if you have troubles, you try using TextEdit (built in), Pages, or the free Office suite for OS X, LibreOffice, all of which I’ve tried and know to work fairly well. Using IPA in the Mac OS X WorldWith either of these methods, you can use IPA in any application, from email to messages, and it should display fine for any of your linguist friends who have suitable fonts installed.That said, Microsoft Word, even the latest (2015) version, doesn’t always play nicely with this sort of input. Again, though, this will only work when you’re using an IPA-friendly font. To add diacritics, just click the base character, then the diacritic which modifies it. Although MS Word may be the most well known word processor, it’s far from being the best on OS X, and I highly encourage you to check out all the options.Regardless, thanks to these free and open source fonts and layouts, you’ll never need to write a Word macro again on OS X. It’s complicated, with a sharp initial learning curve, but with XeLaTeX (which allows Unicode entry) and this keyboard layout and font, you’ll have absolutely flawless IPA, all with all the numerous other benefits of using TeX.But the very least, you should be able to copy/paste your IPA text into a word document, or hopefully even make the switch entirely to a better word processor.
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