Re: Phonetic Symbols

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

Nikolai Weibull said this at Thu, 2 Dec 2004 15:16:54 +0100:

>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.

Well, the mapping with the tipa fonts is pretty easy: for the 64 or so
most-used characters (alphanumeric++), Fukui-san put those characters
where they're accessible with normal keyboarding. That is, get the font
switch right, and you can type with the shorthand codes you know and
like. (Ekspl@"neIS@n)

No, the tricky bit is getting into the diacritics, modifiers, and all
those things. (eh, not all that tricky)
And then there's the tedious bit of handling all those characters in
unicode, then, ideally, creating an input regime for IPA to map to those
named glyphs.

So it's a bunch of tedious work that's sometimes hard to get "just right"
to do a proper job of it. But I'd say there's a 75%, workable solution in
place.

adam
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