dww@stl.UUCP (David Wright) (03/11/86)
This is, as they say, "on behalf of colleagues not on the net" at Cambridge University Linguistics Department. They are working on speech, especially with reference to accent, in relation to speech synthesis/recognition, and publishing working papers with phonetic/phonemic material included. At present they have to put those bits in by hand. It seems to me that TeX could do a good job of typesetting such material, IFF someone has made some suitable fonts. We don't have Metafont working here, and anyway I don't know enough about phonetic script to be able to design fonts for it. Has anyone produced such fonts?
rajeev@sfsup.UUCP (S.Rajeev) (03/15/86)
> This is, as they say, "on behalf of colleagues not on the net" at > Cambridge University Linguistics Department. They are working on > speech, especially with reference to accent, in relation to speech > synthesis/recognition, and publishing working papers with > phonetic/phonemic material included. At present they have to put those > bits in by hand. It seems to me that TeX could do a good job of > typesetting such material, IFF someone has made some suitable fonts. > We don't have Metafont working here, and anyway I don't know enough about > phonetic script to be able to design fonts for it. > > Has anyone produced such fonts? I know that someone at Bell Labs, Murray Hill has written a paper describing a preprocessor for troff that produces the Sanskrit Devanagari script. (If I remember right, the person's name is A. Driscoll.) This might be of interest to you because Devanagari is an entirely phonetic script: each letter is a syllable. The problems you might encounter with "phonetic script" (I assume this is a script for English) are likely to be similar to those presented by Devanagari. S. Rajeev ihnp4!attunix!rajeev.