OT Font Question

[Devin Asay]

On Sep 29, 2008, at 12:34 PM, Mark Swindell wrote:

> Does anyone here know if there exists a font that combines the letters
> that make phonemes, be they digraphs, dipthongs, or just multiple
> letters (oo, ee, ea)?
>
> For example, the word "cough" would have three phonemic chunks: c - ou
> - gh.
>
> But the phonetic representations of the short o phoneme (ou) and the /
> f/ (gh) would be squished up against each other so they would be
> recognized as a chunk, not as separate letters?  Does this make sense?

Not exactly sure what you are after. Would an IPA font do what you  
wanted? You can get some very good ones from sil.org:

http://www.sil.org/computing/catalog/show_software_catalog.asp?by=cat&name=Font

HTH

Devin

Devin Asay
Humanities Technology and Research Support Center
Brigham Young University