[XeTeX] XeLaTeX English and IPA examples

[Cyril Niklaus]

On 27 oct. 04, at 17:28, Ross Moore wrote:
> You'll need to do something like:
>
>     .....\\{}
>      [whatever]
>
> or
>     .....\\
>      {[whatever]}
>
> to get what you seem to want.
>
>
> Hope this helps,
Hi Ross,
Thanks, it does help, and I'll take care from now on when using those 
\\.
before receiving your answer/ explanation, I had used \mbox as a way 
around, and also because I wanted to use these phonetics transcription 
in a math environment. It's the first time I typeset something close to 
maths, and I had to go back to my LaTeX books for pretty much all of 
it, yet it does not suffice for what I want.
I'm writing as a memo a list of vowels and their possible pronunciation 
in French and by twidling I've pretty much arrived at what I want. Here 
the beginning of the thing, my question will be after:

\documentclass[12pt,a4paper,fleqn]{article}
\usepackage{osxfonts}
\setlength{\mathindent}{0.1cm}
\renewcommand{\encodingdefault}{U}
\NewOSXFontFamily{arial-unicode}{Arial Unicode MS}  
\renewcommand{\rmdefault}{arial-unicode}
\begin{document}
\begin{center}
\Large{Les voyelles}
\end{center}
\begin{tabular}{l l l} %{l@{\qquad} l@{\qquad}l} does not work to line 
them all up
a & [a, ɑ] & ami [ami], bas [bɑ]\\
à & [a] & à Paris [a pari]\\
â & [aː] & âge [aːʒ]
\end{tabular}
\[ \mbox{e}  \left \{ \begin{array}{l l l}
	\mbox{-} & \mbox{base [baːz]}\\
	 \mbox{[ə]} & \mbox{petit [pəti]} \\
	  \mbox{[e]} & \mbox{parler [parle]}\\
	   \mbox{[ɛ]} & \mbox{merci [mɛrsi]}
	\end{array} \right. \]
\begin{tabular}{l l l}
é & [e] & été [ete]\\
è & [ɛ] & mère [mɛːr]\\
ê & [ɛ] & fête [fɛt]\\
ë & [ɛ] & Noël [nɔɛl]
\end{tabular}
\[ \begin{array}{l}
\mbox{i} \\  \mbox{î}\\ \mbox{ï} \\ 	\mbox{î} \\ \mbox{y}
	\end{array}
\left  \{ \begin{array}{l l l}
	\mbox{[i]} & \mbox{midi [midi]} \\
	& \mbox{île [il]} \\
	& \mbox{maïs [mais]} \\
	& \mbox{stylo [stilo]} \\
\end{array} \right. \]
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This last bit I'm not happy with. I'm trying to get all the "i" aligned 
then a bracket pointed to the right, at its middle the [i] and then the 
examples. I've managed to do it in the other direction (for the e), but 
no amount of fiddling with \left. \right etc did work. Maybe it's too 
late for me to see the obvious, but if anyone does, please let me know!
Cyril