Download IPA Palette 2.0b2 (1.3M). Finally! Some documentation (in progress)
Please note that this software is a beta version; it is very usable but somewhat unpolished. Use at your own risk.
The Component Manager version in particular hasn't seen the amount of testing it needs because I am transitioning between computers (Blue & White 10.4 to Mac Pro 10.6) right now.

Download the previous IPA Palette 1.0 (616K).

Superscripts are the same as in 1.0:
Enter a superscript by holding down either shift or option and clicking the "regular" consonant or vowel.

Compatibility

This software is only for Mac OS X 10.2.8 and later.

New Features

• Leopard and Snow Leopard compatible, using Apple's new (and very cool) IMKit framework.
• Now includes an installer for the new IMKit flavor; you may not have to log out for the Palette to be available. (10.5 & 10.6 only)
• Resolution-independent PDF image maps instead of millions of tiny buttons with illegible titles. Displays correctly even if SIL fonts are not installed.
• Insert character by dragging from the image map.
• Added VOQS symbols in the extIPA section.
• New localizations: Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), British English, French, Korean, Russian, Vietnamese.
• Preview will warn you when the selected font does not contain the character your mouse is over.
• Hold down the control key when you click a character, and the character will be inserted in the font selected for the character preview.

Fixed or Added in beta 2

• Component Manager version for 10.2.8 to 10.4 added.
• Problems in 10.6 and 10.4 with image maps being incorrectly resized on launch.
• Mouse tracking should be a lot more reliable.
• Search field now recognizes Cut/Copy/Paste and Select All key combinations.
• British English now localizes "properly".
• Check for updates feature. (No auto-update feature planned since I don't know if Sparke can handle Components/IM's.)

Potential Problems

• I've seen a screenshot of the palette running on a German system with the strings unlocalized (i.e., still bearing Onizuka placeholders like __VOWEL__). Haven't been able to reproduce this.
• I did all these added localizations myself, and I do not speak any of the languages. There will be errors! Please point them out. I hope some of them are funny.
• Only tested on Intel at this point. Component Manager version minimally tested.
• If you have an existing IPA Palette 1.0, you should probably disable it and then install.

What Folks Are Saying

• How the heck did you finally come up with an IPA system that actually WORKS?  You're a genius! Thank you!
  -- K.S.
• DUDE! You rock. Thanks so much for putting that together. It is MIRACULOUS!
  -- C.J.
• IPA Palette (mentioned above) is pure gold.
  -- M.D. (from a blog post)
• ...lovely little unit it is too, takes a lot of the blood sweat & tears out of the task of transcription.
  -- C.H.
• I'm taking my first linguistics course and hit a serious note-taking roadblock when we started to use IPA. I take my notes on my Mac laptop and just couldn't keep up the insert->character->etc routine fast enough to catch what my prof. was talking about. Enter IPA Palette.
  -- L.G.
• I want to thank you very much for that software I was waiting for for quite a long time.
  -- B.S.
• just a word of thanks for a very nice ipa input device.... your palette has a made an odious task much more manageable.
  -- S.W.
• Hey, THANK YOU so much for creating this incredibly useful tool.
  -- D.M.
• Thanks again for the great tool. It is very helpful.
  -- T.R.

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