From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/24199 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Taco Hoekwater Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: IPA/TIPA support in Context? Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2005 08:48:58 +0100 Message-ID: <439693EA.9090207@elvenkind.com> References: <4390099D.6060400@elvenkind.com> <43904BB0.3040500@wxs.nl> <43904FCB.3000100@comp.lancs.ac.uk> <439188F0.8020601@elvenkind.com> <439548A8.6030704@wxs.nl> <77F60CBC-E6FE-454C-B0F5-E76506F60520@dandy.net> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1133941889 22166 80.91.229.2 (7 Dec 2005 07:51:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2005 07:51:29 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Wed Dec 07 08:51:20 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Eju4L-0006KC-Fh for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Wed, 07 Dec 2005 08:50:29 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3A6212876; Wed, 7 Dec 2005 08:50:28 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 12005-07; Wed, 7 Dec 2005 08:50:24 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B97A12863; Wed, 7 Dec 2005 08:50:24 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id A529C12863 for ; Wed, 7 Dec 2005 08:50:22 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 11998-08 for ; Wed, 7 Dec 2005 08:50:21 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from post-22.mail.nl.demon.net (post-22.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.192]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id ADBFE12822 for ; Wed, 7 Dec 2005 08:50:21 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from boo.demon.nl ([82.161.175.147]:37258 helo=[192.168.1.3]) by post-22.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 4.51) id 1Eju4C-0009kH-US for ntg-context@ntg.nl; Wed, 07 Dec 2005 07:50:21 +0000 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20050215) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: <77F60CBC-E6FE-454C-B0F5-E76506F60520@dandy.net> X-Virus-Scanned: 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: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:24199 Archived-At: Steve Peter wrote: > > On Dec 6, 2005, at 3:15 AM, Hans Hagen wrote: > >> Jason Knight wrote: >> >>> get into the guts at the time. >>> >>> This threaed gets me thinking: how far away from "proper" is the tipa >>> package under LaTeX? How much work is a "proper" implementation likely >>> to be? >>> >> this is something you and steve peter (also a linguist) can tell us > > I'm actually not certain what's being asked. By being a "proper" > package under LaTeX, do you mean that the package conforms to all norms > for LaTeX package programming? That "proper" remark was made by me. What I meant was: TIPA is fine for phonetics, but it is *only* phonetics. For full support for typesetting in the field of linguistics, many more specialized macros are needed, that are not handled by the TIPA package (like glosses and trees in various styles). Cheers, Taco