Phonotypy

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An interpretation of Issac Pitman's Phonotypy/
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Created on 10th October 2008. Last edited on 5th February 2009.
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4 Comments

A phonetic font uses an augmented alphabet so the abc organizatioin doesnt seem to quite work. The letter A has at least 5 values in the traditional orthography:
eI, a, ô, ø, ä
as in ape, at, all, ago, spa
How would I access these phonograms in your phonotypy font?

Comment by sbett 17th december 2008

The extended characters are in the Latin-1 range (0x80-0xff).

Comment by DreadedCandiru2 17th december 2008

The problem with the font, of course, is the presence of upper-case letters and the author's perceived need to write words in traditional orthography. I'm in the process of revising the font's mapping to get it closer to the pitmanita font; the only difference is that I plan to map SAMPA "Z" to z-caron as there is no parallel to ITA "zess".

Comment by DreadedCandiru2 18th december 2008