[XeTeX] TECkit map for Latin alphabet to Unicode IPA

[Daniel Greenhoe]

2011/10/30 Zdenek Wagner <zdenek.wagner at gmail.com>:
> It depends... In Linux you can define your own xkb map and thus have
> all accents on your keyboard. It is possible to define macros in emacs ...

Thank you for your feedback. However, I was not referring to keyboard
input methods, I meant how do I, for example, create a glyph
containing a Latin letter with a small circle under it?

I know that LaTeX in general supports the \r command that puts a
circle over or kind of over the top of a letter (e.g. \r{a} should
produce something like an a with a small circle over it). But with the
exception of Latin letters with descenders (like "g"), IPA encourages
putting the circles under the letters rather than over them.

In short, what would be a "good" general method for creating glyphs
with assorted diacritics without resorting to editing the font itself
(e.g. with FontForge, etc.)?

Dan

2011/10/30 Zdenek Wagner <zdenek.wagner at gmail.com>:
> 2011/10/30 Daniel Greenhoe <dgreenhoe at gmail.com>:
>> On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 1:11 PM, Andy Lin <kiryen at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> This is actually the reason I abandoned developing the map file
>>> further. I had started based on the textipa replacements that I knew,
>>> and then I discovered all the additional commands and realized that
>>> they could not be implemented by TECkit along ...
>>
>> For better or for worse, I would like to finish what I have started.
>> Currently my problem is finding a good method for typesetting glyphs
>> with diacritics. For example the "b" with a small circle under it
>> (voiceless b) is quite important in Chinese. Any suggestions for
>> typesetting glyphs with diacritics? That is, what would be a good way
>> to put a small circle under a letter without using the tipa package?
>> Maybe it is about at this point where my desired "TECkit map only"
>> solution starts to break down.
>>
> It depends... In Linux you can define your own xkb map and thus have
> all accents on your keyboard. It is possible to define macros in emacs
> but both these solutins are nonportable, you cannot give them to a
> user who prefers another text editor on a different platform. TECkit
> map is portable, you just send the map and instruct users how to
> install it.
>
>> Dan
>>
>> On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 1:11 PM, Andy Lin <kiryen at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 04:06, Daniel Greenhoe <dgreenhoe at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> What I would really like is a "drop in" solution involving a TECkit
>>>> map only. That is, I would like to be able to hand such a map off to a
>>>> linguist, and to tell him/her to simply add in something like this to
>>>> his/her tex file:
>>>>   \addfontfeatures{Mapping=tipa2uni}.
>>>> And that's it --- just one support file: a TECkit map file.
>>>
>>> This is actually the reason I abandoned developing the map file
>>> further. I had started based on the textipa replacements that I knew,
>>> and then I discovered all the additional commands and realized that
>>> they could not be implemented by TECkit along (don't get me wrong,
>>> TECkit maps are very powerful, I've written one to convert
>>> arabtex-like romanization into Persian). After tipa support was added
>>> to xunicode, I just used that instead.
>>>
>>> If this "single line" solution is important to you, you could write a
>>> wrapper package that calls xunicode, adding whichever redefinitions
>>> you need.
>>>
>>> -Andy
>>>
>>>
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