Re: CHAT: XS vs. Kirshenbaum vs. Who-knows-what

Staving Adrian:


>One of my gripes about SAMPA is the use of [_] as the diacritic
>character. It's a bad choice, because the purpose of the underscore
>character is to act as a seperator, not an associator. Thus [t_h]
>looks as though the [t] and the [h] are *less* closely bound than in
>[th], when in fact the opposite is the case. My preference would be
>[\], which is far more intuitive IMO (especially to C programmers).
>
However, those of us who have some experience of TeX or LaTeX find it a
perfectly logical choice, as it is the notation for subscript.

Pete