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From: "Hans Åberg" <haberg-1@telia.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: IPA transcription
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2017 18:30:04 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1414B1DF-16FA-41E8-B7CE-1FDD02E57A99@telia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ob0r91$chr$1@blaine.gmane.org>


> On 23 Mar 2017, at 16:57, Nicola <nvitacolonna@gmail.com> wrote:

> > Is there a (easy) way to write phonetic
> > transcriptions using the IPA (International
> > Phonetic Alphabet) in ConTeXt?  I can't find any
> > reference to it in the documentation.
> 
> I did that some time ago, but I can speak only for macOS. You want to
> have:
> 
> - fonts supporting phonetic symbols (both in the text editor and for the
>  output);
> - an IPA keyboard layout;

You might try the text substitutions service: System Preferences > Keyboard > Text. One chooses replacement text and what it should be substituted into. See the thread "Input methods" for an automated approach to generating large substitution sets.

> The text editor I use is (Mac)Vim, which has very good Unicode support.

Xcode has a good UTF-8 editor. But text substitutions can be used in any program supporting it: Mail, Text Edit.


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-03-23 17:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-03-23 13:49 Angel M Alganza
2017-03-23 15:57 ` Nicola
2017-03-23 16:19   ` Nicola
2017-03-23 17:30   ` Hans Åberg [this message]
2017-03-23 20:04     ` Nicola
2017-03-23 22:24       ` Hans Åberg

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