There is KILE and LyX with GUI for TeX. I manually write in the LaTeX tags, which is aggravating and annoying; but I learn a lot that way. Query: how does everybody else in your program handle this? Scribus is 'only' a(nother) D T P program but it is the font that will render the IPA symbols. I have SIL in Windows. I use ARPAbet, which has Latin characters only.
The message has just appeared this moment on my screen "The link could not be saved. The site is unavailable." http://ftp.ktug.or.kr/tex-archive/fonts/tipa/tipaman.pdf Bart Alberti John Jordan wrote: >On 1 Oct 2005, at 0:15, Robert Memering wrote: > > > >>I have been lecturing on phonetics and phonology at >>university in the summer term and I had no problems >>of this sort at all, because I used LaTeX (with the >>TIPA package). >> >>I know that many people don't want to start using >>LaTeX because they think it's too difficult or >>cumbersome to use. But I think it's definitely worth >>the effort. And: after more than fifteen years it is >>still superior to professional (and expensive) >>software in many ways. IPA Symbols, for example. >> >>Have your mouth watered by the TIPA manual (esp. by the >>specimens): >> >>http://ftp.ktug.or.kr/tex-archive/fonts/tipa/tipaman.pdf >> >> > >Robert, > >Thanks for the suggestions. > >First, the link above appears to be dead or lagged into sometime >next week. All I can get is "operation timed out." > >But more importantly, are the fonts in question regular OpenType >fonts that can be used on Windows and Mac computers? I ask this >because you have assumed that I want a solution just for myself. >That is not the case. I do want a font that I can use for typesetting >as well as general student linguistics work. But I also want to >create a font that the student in "Intro to Linguistics" can use -- a >student using Windows or Mac who barely understands how to >install a font, let alone figure out TeX. > >So if the fonts can be used only with TeX, they are not a solution >for me. > >As for TeX/LaTeX, etc., I already investigated this some time ago. I >can ace a graduate course in Syntax (I have a 4.0 in linguistics >classes), but TeX and all of its related programs leave me totally >baffled. I also tried my hand at programming once. I got to the point >of "hello world" and the rest was incomprehensible. I do not have a >mind that can handle such matters. I need a GUI or I am dead. >That is why I am pinning my personal DTP hopes on Scribus. > >I might be able to learn TeX if there were actual hands-on classes >with instructors to show me step by step how to do it. But the >online documentation is hopeless for me. I couldn't understand >even the first sentence. I would have to ask a question online for >each paragraph of the instructions and then wait several days for >someone to answer it. I'd be dead before I figured it out to the level >you have achieved. My brain is not equal to yours. > >_______________________________________________ >Scribus mailing list >Scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de >http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/mailman/listinfo/scribus > > >
