Re: X-SAMPA { and }

Sorry about the webpage, I was using the Yahoo! Webmail interface with
Lynx to write the email and didn't realise the .sig was on and the
webpages it pointed to have been down for quite some time. I apologise for
any inconvenience caused.

And I did say did. I think, though, that everyone's stressing about using
Standard X-Sampa has just made me give up, given my only problems where
the confusing that using the characters { and } could cause (they're
weren't intended to be used as letters!). So while it might still be at
http://users.bigpond.net.au/zsau/cxsampa.pdf, I'm making no guarantees.

Tristan


On Thu, 8 Nov 2001, Lars Henrik Mathiesen wrote:

> > Date:         Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:40:39 +1100
> > From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Tristan=20Alexander=20McLeay?=
> >               <anstouh@...>
> >
> > Well, I did make up a CX-Sampa (Conlang Extended) PDF (not
> > complete), if that counts as documentation. I even posted it here.
> > So I at least made some sort of effort. I was going to get around to
> > making something more thorough, but I doubted anyone would ever read
> > it apart from myself so I wasn't bothered.
>
> Sorry, I missed that --- and I can't check your homepages for it right
> now, they both seem to be down. (I wanted to see if you think that
> anything substantial is wrong with X-SAMPA).
>
> But since everyone else who wants to tweak X-SAMPA seems to have
> ignored it, it actually affirms my point: There's no real consensus on
> an alternative version, so you won't have a version you can use
> without including the list of differences from the standard each time.
>
> And I think that's a waste of effort, especially for the reader (me)
> who has to decipher another slightly different version with each
> message.
>
> Lars Mathiesen (U of Copenhagen CS Dep) <thorinn@...> (Humour NOT marked)
>