Re: Ugly in ascii was: RE: Re: Introducing Paul Burgess...

        Very very very nice!
        There are two graves left, though, and they raise interesting questions.

 In the full name, the e-grave-ogonek at the end of the name should be
schwa-ogonek (a nasalized central vowel). Can latex do that? Are you using
combining diacritics, or the Unicode vowels with the ogonek?
 Along those lines, could latex do v-ogonek? In Tekwari, Y and V are vowels. V
is a low, central vowel ( /6/) similar to the Mvskogee languages. (The schwa in
Tekwari would be a tad bit higher than the English schwa.) While I don't think
v would ever take the acute (I think a stressed low neutral vowel would
probably turn into a schwa), it could become nasalized.

 Also, the i-grave-accute-ogonek should be i-dotted-accute-ogonek. This could
actually be a challenge. The accented lower case letters i and j in standard
fonts have the dots removed for accented letters. In Tekwari, dotted-i-accute
and undotted-i-accute are different. Can latex handle that? When using regular
Unicode, the acute and grave usually covers the i and j's dot.

 More importantly, is there a good online tutorial for latex? I think I'll have
to start playing with that.....
        I've never actually seen a thorn-tilde in print. Could be interesting.

 I wonder if latex is how Amerind language documents are done. Some have
amazingly complex transcriptions.

 Anyway, you've sold me on Latex. Now, I have to find a free doc creator, and a
tutorial..... Thank you thank you thank you!

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Sent: Friday, March 14, 2003 2:48 PM
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Subject: Re: Ugly in ascii was: RE: Re: Introducing Paul Burgess...

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