Re: IPA/TIPA support in Context?

[Steve Peter <speter@dandy.net>]

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?

Or do you mean that the interface is "proper"? I don't know that that  
can really be judged. But since TIPA has become the de-facto  
standard, most linguists who use TeX have learned its interface. So I  
would aim to recreate that in ConTeXt, modulo the usual changes  
(\startIPA, etc.)

Or did I miss the point?

Steve