[XeTeX] xunicode and TIPA

[Alan Munn]

On Jul 28, 2010, at 2:03 PM, Ulrike Fischer wrote:

> Am Wed, 28 Jul 2010 11:25:30 -0400 schrieb Alan Munn:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> The xunicode package provides a textipa command which recognizes  
>> (most
>> of?) the commands from the tipa package.  This is very useful, since
>> it allows one to convert legacy documents containing IPA to xelatex
>> with minimal trouble.  However, the tipa package also provided an IPA
>> environment.  This is not supplied by xunicode.  Is there a way to
>> emulate that too?  Here's a minimal document:
>>
>> I know the definition for the IPA environment isn't correct; what I
>> want is characters inside that environment to be interpreted in the
>> same way that they are within the \textipa command provided by  
>> xunicode.
>
> You must use a name with small letters for your environment (tipa
> activates the others)
>
> \documentclass{article}
> \usepackage{xltxtra}
> \newfontfamily{\ipafont}{Doulos SIL}
> \def\useTIPAfont{\ipafont}
> \newenvironment{ipa}{%
>  \let\stone\TIPAstonebar
>  \let\tone\TIPAtonebar
>  \setTIPAcatcodes\activatetipa
>  \csname useTIPAfont\endcsname
>  }{}
> \begin{document}
> \textipa{RPAQIOE} % This will give you correct phonetic characters
> \begin{ipa}
> RPAQIOE
> \end{ipa}
>
> \end{document}
>


Perfect.  Thanks a lot, Ulrike.  It's not a big deal to change the IPA  
environments in the legacy source documents to ipa environments.

Is this documented anywhere?  Also, would this environment be  
something that it would make sense to add to xunicode?

Alan



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