[comp.text.tex] simulating another font using other fonts

ilh@winnie-the-pooh.mit.edu (I. Lee Hetherington) (02/01/91)

I'd like to be able to do something like:

	\IPA{DIs \scwha C} or {\IPA DIs \scwha}

and have it expand to something like

	{\eth \bari s \schwa \v c}

where D -> \eth, I -> \bari, s -> s, \schwa unchanged, C -> \v c

In other words, in this IPA environment I'd like to be able to remap
single characters to commands (maybe more than one each), but still
leave commands alone (like the \schwa above).  Basically, when I'm in
this environment I want to make it appear that I'm in another font
(one which is constructed out of characters from other fonts).

Does this sound possible? easy?  I haven't worked with TeX enough to
know how to approach this.

Any help is greatly appreciated!

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Lee Hetherington
MIT Spoken Language Systems Group..........It's not easy to wreck a nice beach!
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