Re: [Groff] Phonetic font working :)

[Peter Holtse]

On Wed, 11 Sep 2002 06:17:47 -0500
Alejandro López-Valencia <address@hidden> wrote:

> Rob Scovell wrote:
> > Thanks, Alejandro.
> 
> Even though I did made some blunders. I usually play groff by ear with
> my old ATT troff knowledge... We learn something everyday.
> 
Some years ago I compiled at set of .char definitions for the IPA character
set which makes it possible to spell things like 'bird': \(b)\[erh]\[long]\(d)
or 'very': \(v)\(E)\[r-flap]\[i-lax]
i.e. switching to the phonetic font in the middle of the ordinary text string.
They also allow for a possible size adjustment between the phonetic and
the text font.

I shall be happy to make them available if anybody is interested.

They look like this:

..char   \[r-flap]                 \s+\n[phnsz]\f[IPA]\N'81'\s-\n[phnsz]
..char   \(Z)                      \s+\n[phnsz]\f[IPA]\N'90'\s-\n[phnsz]
..char   \([)                      \s+\n[phnsz]\f[IPA]\N'91'\s-\n[phnsz]
..char   \[click]                  \s+\n[phnsz]\f[IPA]\N'92'\s-\n[phnsz]
..char   \(])                      \s+\n[phnsz]\f[IPA]\N'93'\s-\n[phnsz]
..char   \[upstep]                 \s+\n[phnsz]\f[IPA]\N'95'\s-\n[phnsz]
..char   \[nasal-subsc]            \s+\n[phnsz]\f[IPA]\N'96'\s-\n[phnsz]
..char   \(a)                      \s+\n[phnsz]\f[IPA]\N'97'\s-\n[phnsz]
..char   \(b)                      \s+\n[phnsz]\f[IPA]\N'98'\s-\n[phnsz]
..char   \(c)                      \s+\n[phnsz]\f[IPA]\N'99'\s-\n[phnsz]
..char   \(d)                      \s+\n[phnsz]\f[IPA]\N'100'\s-\n[phnsz]
..char   \(v)                      \s+\n[phnsz]\f[IPA]\N'118'\s-\n[phnsz]
..char   \(w)                      \s+\n[phnsz]\f[IPA]\N'119'\s-\n[phnsz]
..char   \(x)                      \s+\n[phnsz]\f[IPA]\N'120'\s-\n[phnsz]
..char   \(y)                      \s+\n[phnsz]\f[IPA]\N'121'\s-\n[phnsz]
..char   \[x-lowtone]              \s+\n[phnsz]\f[IPA]\N'165'\s-\n[phnsz]
..char   \[corner]                 \s+\n[phnsz]\f[IPA]\N'167'\s-\n[phnsz]
..char   \[r-retro-super]          \s+\n[phnsz]\f[IPAX]\N'241'\s-\n[phnsz]
..char   \[r-inv-super]            \s+\n[phnsz]\f[IPAX]\N'242'\s-\n[phnsz]
..char   \[esh-curly]              \s+\n[phnsz]\f[IPAX]\N'243'\s-\n[phnsz]
..char   \[t-curly]                \s+\n[phnsz]\f[IPAX]\N'244'\s-\n[phnsz]
..char   \[retro]                  \s+\n[phnsz]\f[IPAX]\N'249'\s-\n[phnsz]
..char   \[Zz]                     \s+\n[phnsz]\f[IPAX]\N'250'\s-\n[phnsz]
..char   \[2-bar]                  \s+\n[phnsz]\f[IPAX]\N'251'\s-\n[phnsz]

As you will see from the examples, the pseudo-glyphs refer to
two different fonts, IPA and IPAX in my implementation, in order
to gain access to the entire IPA alphabet.



Peter




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Peter Holtse
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