Re: TECH: more help?

Philip Newton wrote:
> I would probably look towards (La)TeX for that kind of typesetting.
> It's designed for typesetting mathematics, and one result of this is
> that it has several sizes of brackets, including one that grows to fit
> the contents.
Ooooh, that would be loverly, but... From everything I've heard about LaTex
(on this list some years back, Christophe Grandsire was an enthusiant) it
sounds too complex and too quirky-- not a trick this old dog needs to try to
learn at this point. (And, isn't it expensive?) Also, this project is a
one-time affair, so I fear the effort wouldn't be warranted.
>
> However, I don't know whether you can easily continue to use
> Thryomanes --
Yes, I think that's part of the problem. But it's the only decent font I
have that includes the IPA chars. I need (actually only 1-- the symbol for
voiced h (U+0266). Everything else I need (schwa, Greek letters,
vowel-breve, grave/acute etc.) is available in most other fonts. Jamie
Norrish (of IPA Zounds) mentioned using a fixed width font-- I see Courier
New has U+011F (g-breve) which could stand in for 0266, as well as what
appear to be composible large brackets; possibly I could use that just for
the rules... Must experiment more) And if I needed the occasional real IPA
char., I could paste it in from some other font...(Ultimately the paper will
be turned into a .pdf for posting to the website--the main reason also I'm
writing it in OOWriter.)

> There's a screenshot of an attempt I made at
> http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v405/pne/sample.png . Something like
> that?
Exactly...but given my reservations about LaTex, hmmm...

But thanks for the info, and for prodding my little grey cells. :-))

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