From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/17351 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Nikolai Weibull Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Phonetic Symbols Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 15:16:54 +0100 Message-ID: <20041202141654.GA11149@puritan.pcp.ath.cx> References: <200412010909.49538.john@wexfordpress.com> <20041201153849.20978@news.comp.lancs.ac.uk> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1101998797 24024 80.91.229.6 (2 Dec 2004 14:46:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 14:46:37 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Thu Dec 02 15:46:32 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CZrlc-0002mk-00 for ; Thu, 02 Dec 2004 15:17:08 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id A448B127C4; Thu, 2 Dec 2004 15:17:07 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ronja.vet.uu.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 19775-02; Thu, 2 Dec 2004 15:17:03 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1AC0B12799; Thu, 2 Dec 2004 15:17:03 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BB4D12799 for ; Thu, 2 Dec 2004 15:17:01 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ronja.vet.uu.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 19198-04-2 for ; Thu, 2 Dec 2004 15:17:00 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from mxfep01.bredband.com (unknown [195.54.107.70]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 325A512793 for ; Thu, 2 Dec 2004 15:17:00 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from puritan.pcp.ath.cx ([213.112.43.197] [213.112.43.197]) by mxfep01.bredband.com with ESMTP id <20041202141655.YNMQ18879.mxfep01.bredband.com@puritan.pcp.ath.cx> for ; Thu, 2 Dec 2004 15:16:55 +0100 Original-Received: by puritan.pcp.ath.cx (Postfix, from userid 1000) id CC419AE066; Thu, 2 Dec 2004 15:16:54 +0100 (CET) Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Mail-Followup-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20041201153849.20978@news.comp.lancs.ac.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:17351 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:17351 * Adam Lindsay [Dec 01, 2004 16:40]: > > > 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? Em, I don't want to push this too hard, but I'd be interested in a Tipa work-alike (or something similar) for ConTeXt as well. I'd especially like the mapping part, rather than named glyphs, as it would make more sense in the "source" of the document, for me at least. Thanks for taking an interest in this Adam, nikolai -- ::: name: Nikolai Weibull :: aliases: pcp / lone-star / aka ::: ::: born: Chicago, IL USA :: loc atm: Gothenburg, Sweden ::: ::: page: www.pcppopper.org :: fun atm: gf,lps,ruby,lisp,war3 ::: main(){printf(&linux["\021%six\012\0"],(linux)["have"]+"fun"-97);}