[XeTeX] TECkit map for Latin alphabet to Unicode IPA

[Daniel Greenhoe]

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.

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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