On 22 Nov 2010, at 18:55, Asmus Freytag wrote: > That seems to be true for IPA as well - because already, if you use the font > binding for IPA, your a's and g's will not come out right, which means you > don't even have to worry about betas and chis.
Not so. There is already a convention (going back to the late 19th or early 20th century) about handling this. In an ordinary Times-like font, "a" slopes and loses its hat when italicized. In an ordinary Times-like font, "ɑ" is replaced by an italic Greek α (alpha). Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/
