[XeTeX] XeLaTeX English and IPA examples
Ross Moore
ross at maths.mq.edu.au
Wed Oct 27 10:28:02 CEST 2004
Hi Cyril,
On 27/10/2004, at 5:35 PM, Cyril Niklaus wrote:
>
> On 27 oct. 04, at 10:19, Michael Erlewine wrote:
>
>> Does anybody have an example XeLaTeX document with English and IPA
>> (International Phonetic Alphabet)? I'd love to see it.
> This was done in a minute, and I realized there's something wrong. Oh,
> it's French words (but that's not what's wrong!)
>
> I was planning on doing a little test with this week, so your mail
> prompted it. I have a problem with the schwa and square brackets
> though, the compilations stops with a:
> ! Missing number, treated as zero.
> <to be read again>
> p
> l.8 [pəti]
> petit\\
> ?
> What it causing this error? The FAQs I've read on that are not very
> helpful.
This is a common LaTeX problem: \\ takes an optional argument,
that specifies how large a vertical gap to use before the next
line of text.
Since line-ends are treated as white space, then
......\\
[whatever]
is the same as
.....\\[whatever]
and will cause an error unless the "whatever" is a <dimen>
(i.e., a number!).
You'll need to do something like:
.....\\{}
[whatever]
or
.....\\
{[whatever]}
to get what you seem to want.
Hope this helps,
Ross
> Cyril
>
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