John Jason Jordan wrote:
> Furthermore, the SAMPA-like IPA insertion thing is like 15 years out of
> date. Linguists today use straight Unicode insertion via the Unicode
> code point. But that's OK, I have figured out how to enter the Unicode
> number to get the character I want in general text without having to
> use a TIPA box.
I think this statement ("Linguists today") is too general. I very much prefer
the TIPA shortcut notation over unicode codepoints, because insertion is much
faster. Also, the TIPA package gives you much better microtypographic quality
(at least on LyX), because the unicode method will break character kerning (as
long as you do not use XeTeX, that is).
But tastes may differ.
> The problem is that the fonts that are installed by default in Lyx that
> I find aesthetically acceptable (Bitstream Charter, Utopia) do not have
> the necessary IPA and combining diacriticals blocks. There is the
> possibility of Bera Serif and Concrete Roman, but they were not
> installed by default and I can't figure out how to install them.
What LaTeX distribution are you running? Recent distributions should do the
installation for you on request.
> Apparently there are TeX font packages for the above two, and also
> several others. I am especially interested in Nimbus because I have the
> regular TT version installed and it does have the IPA characters that I
> need.
>
> The problem is that I cannot figure out how to install these font
> packages. Can someone give an idiot n00bie a step-by-step how-to?
Most packages come with an installation instruction (and the installation
slightly differs, depending on the package).
Jürgen
