Re: CPA - An ASCII-based phonetic alphabet

> Date:         Sun, 18 Nov 2001 10:14:15 +1100
> From: Tristan Alexander McLeay <anstouh@...>
>
> And Lars wrote:
> > It also puts the tilde in [A:~] over the length mark
>
> Which is logical and to be expected; the reason I did it was because
> I made the human mistake of thinking of it as a nasalised long A,
> not a long nasalised A.
Well, I happen to think that if it's natural, you should be allowed to
do it. X-SAMPA diacritics don't have a specified order, and when using
the code you should not be required to imagine how the corresponding
piece of IPA would be typeset.

Lars Mathiesen (U of Copenhagen CS Dep) <thorinn@...> (Humour NOT marked)