On 23/03/2017 18:30, Hans Åberg wrote:
On 23 Mar 2017, at 16:57, Nicola <nvitacolo...@gmail.com> wrote:
Is there a (easy) way to write phonetic
transcriptions using the IPA (International
Phonetic Alphabet) in ConTeXt? I can't find any
reference to it in the documentation.
I did that some time ago, but I can speak only for macOS. You want to
have:
- fonts supporting phonetic symbols (both in the text editor and for the
output);
- an IPA keyboard layout;
You might try the text substitutions service: System Preferences >
Keyboard > Text. One chooses replacement text and what it should be
substituted into. See the thread "Input methods" for an automated
approach to generating large substitution sets.
Sure, that's another possibility. A drawback of that approach, as far as
I can see, is that those substitutions are applied globally across the
system.
Btw, Vim has a similar feature, called `iabbrev`: the advantage is that
replacements are editor-specific and the method is cross-platform
(because Vim is). Vim also offers support for inputting “digraphs” and
for defining your own. Even better, for the use case at hand, is that
you may also define your own keymap, e.g.:
https://github.com/bpj/bpj-vim-keymaps/blob/master/keymap/bxs.vim
I guess that other editors (e.g., Emacs) may offer similar
functionality.
Anyway, for me the IPA keyboard layout is what has worked best.
Nicola
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