Helge Hafting wrote:
> Well, how about having a similiar mechanism in text mode, then?
> In math you can press "\" and then enter a name like "alpha" or
> some TIPA symbol or whatever. All unicode characters are
> numbered, I believe.
The thing about IPA shortcuts is that you have to hit only one key to get a
given symbol. For instance, \textipa{E} produces an epsilon, it is the
shortcut for \textepsilon, \textipa{P} is the shortcut for \textglotstop, the
IPA symbol representing a glottal stop, [EMAIL PROTECTED] is the shortcut for
the
schwa symbol. All these can be combined directly. See the
\textipa{Ekspl@"[EMAIL PROTECTED] example here:
http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LinguistLyX#toc2
Escaping each of that shortcuts is way too clumsy, as well as the minibuffer.
It should be possible to just type in the shortcuts directly (as it is now in
math-tipa mode). Perhaps it is needed to switch between "TIPA shortcut"
and "unicode mode", perhaps not. Note that I'm not stating that this is
difficult to implement in a native TIPA inset, I'm just stating that it
should be done this way.
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