Re: Phonetic Symbols

["Adam Lindsay" <atl@comp.lancs.ac.uk>]

John Culleton said this at Wed, 1 Dec 2004 09:09:49 -0500:

>> Bernd, I'll forward the thing I've come up with off-list. It builds on
>> the TIPA fonts in the LaTeX package.
>>
>This is a bit heretical I know but couldn't one just use a 
>\font\foo=nameoffont at 12pt
>type statement? 

Wow, this was a blast from the past. 

Nothing wrong with that, as such, but I asked Sjoerd, the original
poster, about his use patterns. He actually didn't use the tipa encoding
shortcuts (the mapping of characters directly to glyphs in the fonts,
'@'), but rather the named glyphs (\textschwa). So I focussed on that at
first.

Now that I have learned a lot about ConTeXt's character system and
Unicode, I see a lot that I could have done differently. But then again,
it's also not the worst foundation for doing further work. (Such as
hooking it in with Unicode. I'd have to put the tip jar out in order to
take that on in the near future, though!)

John, why the sudden interest in a 6-month old post?

adam
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