For one who has abandoned craving and is free from
grasping,
who is skilled in etymology and terms, knowing
the groupings and sequences of letters,
this is the final birth.
This one is called
the Great Being,
the Great Sage.
Dhammapada (24.19)
To accomodate the various orthographies of our source transcriptions, a special Macintosh Font was developed. The original bitmap font developed by Stephen P. BARON in the late 1980's evolved with advances in typographic technology into STEDT Font for Macintosh, a TrueType outline font created early in 1993 by John Brandon LOWE. The font has been maintained by Richard COOK since 1998. A Unicode 4.0 font called STEDTU is currently available for download. Use of the STEDTU font with STEDT Font 5.x data requires that the data be converted to Unicode 4.0 (see the converter below). Details of this font's development are presented in the documentation below.
The STEDT transcription font employs both IPA and non-IPA characters, including numerous pre-struck and full-width diacritics. The STEDT Font follows conventions set forth in the 2nd edition of the Phonetic Symbol Guide (PULLUM and LADUSAW 1996). Additionally the STEDT Font contains other characters serving to represent the orthographies of our various source transcriptions. Please see the list of STEDT Font Character Set Images. See also the current release of the STEDT Font Reference.
This is a Perl script (for Perl 5.8.1 and above) for converting text files in the legacy STEDT encoding into Unicode. When run in a directory, it creates a Unicode (UTF-8) text file with the extension ".u8" for each file in the directory having the extension ".txt".
There is also a Perl module, in case you need a more flexible option to convert your old data and are conversant in Perl.
This (2001/02/22) release version of the STEDT Font is 5.1.5. This version includes fixes to bitmaps, outlines, and metrics. Version 5.1.5 contains the complete character set of Version 5.0, and so is backwards compatible with it in this regard. Fixes in version 5.1.5 font metrics may however result in documents formatted with version 5.0 displaying slightly differently under version 5.1.5 (line breaks and page breaks in such documents may be slightly different under 5.1.5 in very few instances). Note that the separate STEDT Font bold and italic type faces have not been included in this release though they may reappear in future releases.
In addition, STEDT Font Reference 5.1.1 is now available. Font Reference 5.1.1 is a FileMaker Pro 4 Database file, available in stand-alone (Runtime) and fm3 database formats. Users who do not own FileMaker Pro 4 (or 3) should download the larger (1.5MB) Runtime version, or else refer to Font Reference 5.0 (also available below).
You can know type phonetic characters in Unicode with the same keys you used to use to type the STEDT Font characters on a Macintosh with the STEDTKeys keyboard.
Macintosh Files Available for Download:
National Science Foundation, Division of Behavioral & Cognitive Sciences, Linguistics, Grant Nos. BNS-86-17726, BNS-90-11918, DBS-92-09481, FD-95-11034, SBR-9808952, BCS-9904950, BCS-0345929, BCS-0712570.
National Endowment for the Humanities, Division of Research Programs, Grant Nos. RT-20789-87, RT-21203-90, RT-21420-92; Preservation & Access Reference Materials, Grant Nos. PA-22843-96, PA-23353-99, PA-24168-02, PA-50709-04, PM-50072-07.
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