Questions tagged [tipa]
tipa is a font and LaTeX package for typesetting IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) with TeX.
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How to use phonetic IPA characters in LaTeX
I wish to write a paper about linguistics, so I thought about trying LaTeX. Sadly I couldn't figure out how to write the unique characters I need for my work, for example epsilon with a little tilde ...
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Teuthonista diacritics?
I am looking for certain diacritics from the phonetic transcription system of the Sprachatlas der deutschen Schweiz (Swiss German linguistic atlas). It is a system that is similar to the one sometimes ...
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Typesetting phonetic symbols: Unicode or tipa?
On TeX.SX there are a lot of questions of the form "How do I typeset [some phonetic symbol]?" For example:
Typesetting modifier letter U+02ED
The near-close, near-front unrounded vowel symbol
The IPA ...
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Using TIPA with fontspec
I'm trying to write a document that will contain characters in many different scripts (for which I am using fontspec and rendering with xelatex) and IPA symbols (for which I am using TIPA). Ordinarily,...
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Creating new characters from existing ones
In a nutshell. Is there a relatively easy way of building characters out of parts of existing ones?
Rationale. (La)TeX linguists’ need for a wide palette of characters—for example, ⟨ɳ⟩ (U+0273), ⟨ɲ⟩ (...
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Bar-less “f” and finetuning existing characters
Specific question
I would like to produce an italic f without the crossbar. Can I do this relatively straightforwardly?
This letter, esh (ʃ), is Unicode U+01A9, U+0283. The esh of tipa.sty only ...
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" with tipa and babel's ngerman / \shorthandoff{"} in a macro
TL;DR see below at "core problem"
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I'm trying to solve a conflict between the packages tipa (Fonts and macros for IPA phonetics characters) and babel with the ngerman option. The problem is ...
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Accessing IPA characters when using Charis SIL
When using Charis SIL, how do I access IPA characters? Are there handy macros, as with tipa.sty? If I have to set up my own encoding using unicode numbers, how is this best done? (Code from those ...
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Adding complex phonetic symbols to LaTeX
I am trying to add symbols from the International Phonetic Alphabet to my thesis. For some of the characters, I have no idea how to add them to TeX.
The retroflex is giving me troubles.
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More problems with TIPA and Fontspec
I do quite a lot of work with Sanskrit and linguistics. For the Sanskrit (Devanagari letters) I used fontspec and render with xelatex. This, as far as I can tell, is the only way to go. For the ...
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Combining lmodern and tipa
When I use tipa and lmodern in the same document, I always get a couple of font substitution warnings. The document looks fine, though. Is there any way around this?
Minimal example:
\documentclass{...
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While using package gb4e all the dental marks in IPA go berserk
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{tipa}
\usepackage{gb4e}
\usepackage{nomencl}
\begin{document}
\begin{exe}
\ex
\gll \noautomath \textipa{\|[to} pani pito\\
ram.3P....
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Tipa not working
I'm trying to type the phonetic transcription of some words with tipa but it's not compiling correctly and the glyphs don't show up. Here's a MWE of my code compiled with LuaLaTeX:
\documentclass[...
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TIPA problem with the symbol n with right leg
I can type all symbols with the TIPA package but not the n with the right leg. I usually use \textipa{code of the symbol} and it works with all codes I tried in the TIPA manual but not with the \...
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Active characters inside commands
I'm trying to ease my typesetting of phonetics with tipa by creating a custom command myipa which is supposed to substitute some common characters for the corresponding tipacodes. A much simplified ...
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Filtering font substitution warnings caused by the combination of lmodern and tipa
This question is a follow-up to Combining lmodern and tipa: I tried to filter the harmless warnings that occur when using tipa with the Latin Modern font. Doing so crashes both pdflatex and regular ...
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tipa with fontspec redux: tilde above characters
I'm trying to use the tipa package with fontspec, but they don't play nice together. I've read previous questions trying to solve the issues that come up (like this one), and that's the solution I've ...
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Preparing a text for conversion to LaTeX: How to convert "ejective stops" in TIPA?
So I'm going to convert a lengthy document from Word to LaTeX.
The document is full of glottal stops like p' t' k' (in Word format)
When I passed them into a LaTeX format, the ['] symbol is ...
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How to put a symbol over another in the same line - simultaneous superscript/subscrtipt
Is there a way to put one symbol over the other just as in this shot of a dictionary page?
http://phonetic-blog.blogspot.com/2009/09/weak.html
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How to make tipa compatible with braket?
The following minimal working example generates an error if you remove the per cent sign.
\documentclass{amsart}
%\usepackage{tipa}
\usepackage{braket}
\begin{document}
\[
\Set{x|y}
\]
\end{document}
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Is it possible to make TIPA's fonts available to fontspec?
I've finally accepted that it's not worth trying to use TIPA with fontspec, however, I do like its font. Specifically, I wish to continue using Latin Modern/Computer Modern as much as possible and, ...
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How to put an accent mark on a barred i (U+0268) without the tittle/dot
I’m writing a linguistics paper using the tipa package, and I need to put an acute accent mark (´) to show tone on top of a barred i (ɨ). If I use \'{\textbari} or textipa{\'1} I get a character with ...
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Linguex and Tipa
The numbering of the sentences shows as underlined dots when using \ag. \a. \b. of linguex and tipa . \bg. works fine but starts numbering from (a.)
\documentclass{...
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How can I get the character ʟ̟ ?
I would like to get the character 'ʟ̟' (small caps L with + diacritic).
I am using the TIPA package. When I combine the TIPA for the L with the TIPA for the diacritic, my code won't compile. I get ...
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IPA in math mode
I want to use an IPA character as a symbol in a mathematical formula in my latex document (it sounds perverse, but there's a reason). But when I do $\textipa{I}$, I get the large capital I instead of ...
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How to input floating tone of African languages in LaTex?
I am inputting TIPA code for some African languages. I encountered a problem with inputting floating tone. The floating tone is a high tone (\') or a low tone (`) over a space instead of over any ...
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Custom phonetic font with tipa and fontspec
I've been trying to typeset a document that has a lot of phonetic transcriptions, and I'm trying to do it using Tex Gyre Bonum for the body and Charis SIL for the phonetic transcriptions. I'm trying ...
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Libertine and TIPA Sans Serif
My goal is to get the tipass (that is, TIPA Sans Serif) font to work with the libertine package. Using the following, I get computer modern (as expected) with TIPA sans serif:
\documentclass{article}
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How to use IPA symbols in pst-asr package?
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{pstricks,pst-xkey,pst-asr,graphicx}\psset{everyasr=\tiershortcuts}
\begin{document}
\asr pem \endasr
\end{document}
Hi, there
How can I use IPA symbols ...
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How can I write the symbol t̬ in TeX? [duplicate]
In terms of the phonetic symbol, how can I write the symbol t̬ , a "t" with an upside down "^" under it?
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Contour tone diacritics with tipa?
LaTeX allows for three level tones and two contours to be notated using the above-vowel diacritics: \'{} for the H tone (á), \`{} for L (à), \={} for M (ā), \v{} for LH (ǎ), and \^{} for HL (â).
The ...
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How to use T4 fonts in LaTex?
I would like to input some African language symbols (\B{t}, \m{y}). I tried command:
\usepackage[T4]{fontenc}
But it did not work. How can I use T4 font encoding?
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Typesetting modifier letter U+02ED
I'm creating an article on Ancient Greek pronunciation with IPA transcription in TeXworks. Ancient Greek distinguishes voiceless unaspirated, aspirated, and voiced stops, and I would like to ...
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Cannot make substitution
I want a command \myreplace replacing all instances of : with the \textlengthmark command from the tipa package. (In fact, this is one of the things that the tipa command \textipa does, but for ...
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Redefining IPA glyphs without tipa
I am preparing a paper containing a few IPA characters to submit to a journal and would like to find glyphs that match the font of the journal. The ones generated by tipa don't match:
And from this ...
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TIPA input for African language symbols
I am digitalizing the handwritten notes of some African languages through LaTex. I encountered several symbols and was not able to find TIPA code for them. I wonder how I can input them in LaTex. Many ...
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IPA characters with tipa in Beamer poster switch to small font size, cannot be set to normal font size
I am using package tipa in order to have IPA characters at my disposal. However, when used in conjunction with beamer poster, the tipa characters switch to small font size. Setting them to another ...
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The IPA symbol for the labiodental flap (ⱱ)
I need the ⱱ character (prefereably with the advanced diacritic underneath it) for a phonetics paper, but the tipa package doesn't seem to contain it. I have at least one font with this character on ...
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tipa package messes up compilation
I am trying to use the tipa package to provide a different version of the Omega greek symbol:
\usepackage{tipa}
\newcommand{\scOmega}{\text{\textscomega}} % small omega*
But now I get that my entire ...
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How to typeset superscript IPA characters
I'm using TIPA and I'm trying to do something like this:
\textipa{/bI"[email protected]/}
Which works, but I want the @ character to be an upper index. How do I do this?
I've tried this
\textipa{/bI"wIl....
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Using tikz and tipa packages
I'm using the packages tipa and tikz in the document class beamer. However, I'm having a hard time trying to combine them when drawing arrows. Look at the MWE below:
\documentclass{beamer}
\...
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How to make a capital V with a brevis or macron over it?
I'm doing linguistics, and I need to show short and long vowels.
The tipa package handles vowels with the brevis or macron sign over them, but if I use a capital V \={V} or \u{V} I don't get a ...
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Set tipa font to Times for phonetic characters
I've read in the tipa manual that you can have the tipa font set as Computer Modern (the default) or Times. I'm using Libertine, so Computer Modern doesn't look great, and Times would look better. ...
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Revisiting TIPA and Fontspec
fontspec does not generally play nicely with TIPA these days. My intention in this question is to find out what exactly is causing the problem.
In attempting to diagnose the problem, I began with the ...
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How can I annotate syllable weight and stress?
See the example from Hayes 1995 (Metrical Stress Theory):
I don't need to exactly replicate his notation, but I'd like a way in Sharelatex (preferably using the standard compiler) to make a ...
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Bolding IPA symbols with tipa
I am using the tipa package for IPA in my dissertation. I would like to bold certain symbols, and have tried, e.g.: \textbf{\textipa{\!d}}. However, they do not bold in Latex's default font (computer ...
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Weird tipx error
Just for fun I wrote a converter for decimal numbers that prints them in bases < 37:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fixltx2e,hyperref,ifthen}
\usepackage{tipx}
\makeatletter
\newcount\mod
\...
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Translate string into TIPA
I am writing a project about phonetics using the tipa package. The problem is, I need to publish two separate versions of my project using different phonetic notation standards. When considering the ...
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Unable to type ⱱ with tipa [duplicate]
Like the title states, I am unable to find a way to type ⱱ (the voiced labiodental flap aka v with a right hook) in my document using the tipa package.
Perhaps I am just unable to find it (searched ...
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For an arbitrary TeX-internal entity (e.g. METAPOST, TIPA), associate a unicode value for PDF copy/paste
Latin Modern Roman has bad output for certain unicode combinations, including ā́ (small Latin 'a' with macron and acute accent). This can be remedied by using the TIPA package for these combinations, ...