Re: OT typewriter woes (was: ¡u ?op ?p?s dn ?? ? ?? u?? oo? no?)

Yes, you can, and if you only need one special character per document, it's
no problem. But typing entire phonological treatises is another matter
entirely. And shortcuts don't change the font, so if you're typing in Times
New Roman, all your characters will turn into boxes, and you have to change
fonts by hand etc. etc. One thing that *is* handy is defining a macro, which
I have done once for one character I needed, and finally I found out I only
needed it once or twice in a pretty long text. No, definitely, LaTeX's tipa
is way superior when it comes to phonetic stuff.

2008/12/8 Ph.D. <phil@...>

> In MS Word, inputting them should be easy. Can't you select Insert ->
> Symbol from the menu? That will bring
> up a box showing all the characters defined in the current font. You can
> just click on the one you want or you can set up short-cut keys for the ones
> you use
> the most.
>
> --Ph. D.
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Njenfalgar" <njenfalgar@...>
> Sent: Monday, December 08, 2008 5:09 AM
> Subject: Re: OT typewriter woes
>
>
>
>  Wow, and I thought Microsoft Word to be messy... (Only some fonts contain
>> IPA characters, and inputting them is a rather nontrivial task.) Long live
>> LaTeX's Tipa package! :-)
>>
>> Idustvok va yentelkvil gifpir, puk gifpir, ivan kitil.
>>
>

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