 thanks everyone responded questions latex fonts using linux general respondents jen hay jennifer hay vuw ac nz mark hale hale1 husc harvard edu greg iverson iverson csd uwm edu james mcgilvray jim dep philo mcgill ca michael covington mcovingt ai uga edu james magnuson magnuson hip atr co jp uli sauerland sauerlan mit edu tom green tmgreen mit edu larry trask larryt cogs susx ac uk ted harding nessie mcc ac uk ted harding c creider creider julian uwo ca mark liberman myl sansom ling upenn edu first responses clearly indicate exists least two ipa fonts latex see responses general questions ranged enthusiastic encouragement using latex linux fervernt wishes rethink abandonment macintosh os recommendations operating systems textprocessing dsp systems perhaps mentioned already relatively familiar bsd unix switching linux much shock though obviously using latex quite change mac based word processor score currently pro latex w ipa 7 pro linux 4 pro mac 1 pro nextstep 1 anti latex 1 number somewhat mixed responses suggesting part remain mac text processing work kind unix environment dsp data processing stick mac actual sound manipulation switch linux everything else dsp least two recommendations signalyze macintosh two ogitools unix systems select quotes anonymously discourage os partisanship seeping real life thoroughly recommend switching latex running linux box use latex professional word processing days nt found anything cant yet say linux compared dos windows os 2 desqview windows nt latest versions running linux year half never crashed never every one others gee hope switching macintosh linux workstation nt painful really power macintosh machines indeed powerful word processing situation well developed wordperfect 3 1 nisus writer 4 06 others topic unix instantiations tex might look nextstep instead linux next gui honestly elegant several good ipa font sets latex well whole bunch accents available even nt use special fonts use latex linux unixes papers couple good packages phonetic symbol fonts work great latex first dislike latex intensely colleagues linguistics find uniquely userhostile basically cant change defaults unless degree hacking whole advice stay away latex linux user assure latex sorts extensions work well linux find linguistic tools latex able use linux also requests share information regarding find latex ipa fonts apparently least two maybe one called tsipa japan another called wsuipa washington state university one person mentioned font set waterloo give details tsipa available ftp shsu edu texarchive fonts tsipa couple people mentioned tex forlinguists newsgroup listserv shsu edu may longer running also tex newsgroup comp text tex info thanks people responded quickly going give linux latex system shot see make alex afrancis midway uchicago edu alex francis 312 6675432 department linguistics afrancis midway uchicago edu university chicago 312 6675432 home 1010 e 59th st 312 7029861 ling dept fax chicago il 60637 312 7027045 lang lab