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LaTeX: How do you insert IPA characters?

Posted: Sun Jul 15, 2012 5:47 pm
by MysteryMan23
I noticed a lot of people around here use LaTeX, and I've been using it myself recently. Thing is, I've been struggling with typing the IPA characters. Since any grammar written in LaTeX will likely make use of characters from the IPA, I've been wondering how you all handle IPA characters, like the glottal stop.

So, how do you insert IPA characters into your work?

Re: LaTeX: How do you insert IPA characters?

Posted: Sun Jul 15, 2012 6:06 pm
by Herr Dunkel
You should get the linguistics package of LaTeX

Re: LaTeX: How do you insert IPA characters?

Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2012 1:01 am
by Zhen Lin
If you are using XeTeX or LuaTeX or any decent modern TeX engine with Unicode support, you can just insert the appropriate Unicode characters. Otherwise you can use commands like \textscr for ʀ, etc.

Re: LaTeX: How do you insert IPA characters?

Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2012 11:57 am
by Tanni
MysteryMan23 wrote:I noticed a lot of people around here use LaTeX, and I've been using it myself recently. Thing is, I've been struggling with typing the IPA characters. Since any grammar written in LaTeX will likely make use of characters from the IPA, I've been wondering how you all handle IPA characters, like the glottal stop.

So, how do you insert IPA characters into your work?

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\documentclass[11pt,a4paper,fleqn]{article}

\usepackage{latexsym,verbatim,path}

\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}

\usepackage[extra]{tipa}

% \usepackage[extra,safe]{tipa}

% \usepackage[T3,OT2,T1]{fontenc}
% \usepackage[noenc]{tipa}

\parindent0pt
\parskip2.2ex


\begin{document}


% \textipa{[\!] [\:r] [\;B]}\quad{\tipasafemode
%  $ a\:a\quad b;\quad c\!c\quad\| $}\quad
% \textipa{[\!b] [\:r] [\;B] (back again!)}

\textipa
{
 [\textsecstress\textepsilon kspl\textschwa\textprimstress ne%
 \textsci\textesh\textschwa n]
}

\textipa{[""Ekspl@"neIS@n]}


Command:

\textipa{[\textsecstress Ekspl@\textprimstress neIS@n]}

Group:

{\tipaencoding
 [\textsecstress\textepsilon kspl\textschwa\textprimstress ne%
 \textsci\textesh\textschwa n]
}

Environment:

\begin{IPA}
 [\textsecstress\textepsilon kspl\textschwa\textprimstress ne%
 \textsci\textesh\textschwa n]
\end{IPA}

\begin{IPA}
 \*f \*k \*r \*t \*w
\end{IPA}


Only works when option ''safe'' is not in effect.


\textipa{\*f \*k \*r \*t \*w}

\textipa{\*j \*n \*h \*l \*z}

\textipa{\*A dOg \*B k\ae{}t, ma\super{\*{214}}}

\textipa{\;B \;E \;A \;H \;L \;R}

\textipa{\:d \:l \:n \:r \:s \:z}

\textipa{\!b \!d \!g \!j \!G \!o}


\end{document}

Re: LaTeX: How do you insert IPA characters?

Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2012 1:45 pm
by Morrígan
I really recommend using XeLaTeX, I kind of hate TIPA. then I just type things in, and they appear correctly. Though I'm using Keyman/dbus+KMFL for input with a keyboard I wrote for myself...

Re: LaTeX: How do you insert IPA characters?

Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2012 1:22 pm
by MysteryMan23
Okay, I decided to try Goatface's idea. I switched to TeX Live for my TeX installation, and set up my TeX editor, TeXStudio to use XeTeX. That way, I could input Unicode characters and have them appear in my document with little more than the usual rigamarole. Only thing is, TeXStudio isn't even saving my Unicode characters! They keep turning into question marks when I save them. I think it may have something to do with the encoding, but I don't know for sure. Any ideas?

Re: LaTeX: How do you insert IPA characters?

Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2012 1:49 pm
by Jipí
I don't know the program, but to venture an educated guess, could it be that you need to set the standard encoding to UTF-8 when saving somewhere? Many text editors I've tried for some reason still assume you want to save stuff in iso-8859-1 by default.

Re: LaTeX: How do you insert IPA characters?

Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2012 2:11 pm
by ol bofosh
God, I'm living in the copy-and-paste age still. :roll:

Re: LaTeX: How do you insert IPA characters?

Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2012 2:56 pm
by MysteryMan23
Okay, I solved the problem. Apparently, I forgot to put an input encoding instruction to actually tell the program to actually use UTF-8 encoding. You see, the program was actually set to use UTF-8 encoding; I had thought that was the wrong encoding, but it wasn't. Unfortunately, the file wasn't being treated like a proper UTF-8 file because the file itself wasn't telling the program to do so. It's working now.

Re: LaTeX: How do you insert IPA characters?

Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2012 2:00 am
by Gulliver
Can someone please explain to me the actual benefits, for the average writer, of doing things in *TeX rather than, saw, a word processor? I've tried and I've experimented and I've concluded that I do not have time for that shit. Why do people use it?

Re: LaTeX: How do you insert IPA characters?

Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2012 3:58 am
by Pthagnar
Gulliver wrote:Can someone please explain to me the actual benefits, for the average writer, of doing things in *TeX rather than, saw, a word processor? I've tried and I've experimented and I've concluded that I do not have time for that shit. Why do people use it?
There aren't any. It is for dorks who a) need to typeset mathematics and/or b) have the desire to sperg out intensely over programmatic typesetting and/or c) want to signal "look at this -- it's written in LaTeX! Computer Modern, everybody!"

NE: oh, and the document structuring, with automatic chapter/section numbers and bibliography management and so on is pretty good and easy to use -- better than the more common alternatives if you're writing a long and technical document requiring that kind of structure.

NE: oh yeah and there's a document class in LaTeX called "Beamer" [as though we had never won the war...] which is supposed to be pretty good for making slides for presentations, since having to do things in LaTeX markup suggests a better, more austere layout than the profligacy which Powerpoint encourages.

Re: LaTeX: How do you insert IPA characters?

Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2012 4:10 am
by Ars Lande
Gulliver wrote:Can someone please explain to me the actual benefits, for the average writer, of doing things in *TeX rather than, saw, a word processor? I've tried and I've experimented and I've concluded that I do not have time for that shit. Why do people use it?
Word can be a major pain in the ass sometimes, especially if you have lots of tables, schematics and need to typeset mathematics.
Though I've always preferred Word, even when I was an engineering student. LaTex wasn't worth the trouble.

I've used Beamer for a few presentations, though, because I thought the results were much better-looking than with Powerpoint.
(I still think Beamer is better looking, actually, but I've developped a strong distaste for presentations since and now I rather like it when they're ugly).

Re: LaTeX: How do you insert IPA characters?

Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2012 6:32 am
by Gulliver
Pthug wrote:NE: oh, and the document structuring, with automatic chapter/section numbers and bibliography management and so on is pretty good and easy to use -- better than the more common alternatives if you're writing a long and technical document requiring that kind of structure.
Ah, okay. Yes, I've found the handling of sections in Word a bit irritating. LibreOffice Writer seems to do it a bit better, but takes ten thousand years to start up when Word 2010 takes about a second and is much nicer looking.

As someone who can't even handle HTML without giving up and just installing Wordpress, I think I've concluded that LaTeX is not for me.

I'm actually moderately proficient at doing things like rescuing data from corrupt documents (thank you, Abiword, for cacking up my 3000 word uni assignment) as lots of them are just zip files so you can open them up and transplant the bits you want and editing the XML in templates and things, but as soon as I try to actually write any code I might as well be smearing poo on the walls for all the good it does me.

Re: LaTeX: How do you insert IPA characters?

Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2012 10:48 am
by Zhen Lin
Pthug wrote:
Gulliver wrote:Can someone please explain to me the actual benefits, for the average writer, of doing things in *TeX rather than, saw, a word processor? I've tried and I've experimented and I've concluded that I do not have time for that shit. Why do people use it?
There aren't any. It is for dorks who a) need to typeset mathematics and/or b) have the desire to sperg out intensely over programmatic typesetting and/or c) want to signal "look at this -- it's written in LaTeX! Computer Modern, everybody!"
Getting rid of Computer Modern is the first thing I do with any LaTeX document I write...

Re: LaTeX: How do you insert IPA characters?

Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2012 11:04 am
by Bob Johnson
I only use fonts you've never heard of.

Re: LaTeX: How do you insert IPA characters?

Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2012 11:10 am
by Pthagnar
Zhen Lin wrote:Getting rid of Computer Modern is the first thing I do with any LaTeX document I write...
that's because you've gone beyond signalling "look -- Computer Modern!" to the next level of "look -- it ISN'T Computer Modern!". this way lies only oscillation.

Re: LaTeX: How do you insert IPA characters?

Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2012 11:13 am
by Jipí
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Re: LaTeX: How do you insert IPA characters?

Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2012 2:09 pm
by Travis B.
I have always favored controlling what is typeset in a human-readable and editable source file from which an output file (whether PDF, PS, or DVI) is generated rather than trying to wrangle with making things look just right in a GUI word processor, which almost always seems like a pain in the ass, particularly with regard to keeping everything in order and looking consistent. For being supposedly "WYSIWYG" everything seems more difficult than it ought to be in them.

(I remember in particular at my previous job trying to create a sizeable body of documentation for a particular test application. Trying to make things be formatted right with "styles" under Word was a pain in the ass, especially when Word would try to change styles automatically for me as if I somehow wanted it to, making a mess of things. I would have had a much easier time with this were I able to use LaTeX for it.)

Re: LaTeX: How do you insert IPA characters?

Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2012 12:53 am
by Jerian
I copy/paste them from Wikipedia XD

Re: LaTeX: How do you insert IPA characters?

Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2012 5:26 am
by ol bofosh
Jerian_Nostigia wrote:I copy/paste them from Wikipedia XD
Oh good, I'm not the only one.

I have started collecting my personal phonology in one place (Excel) so I don't have to look for individual phones on Wikipedia each time. Also I don't have to put symbols for labialisation, lateral releases, velarisation and aspiration because I put them in their proper combinations. It's a bit easier like that.

Re: LaTeX: How do you insert IPA characters?

Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2012 1:45 pm
by Jerian
alt shortcuts also help, if you can memorize them.

I'm using a mac, here's a quick alt + faceroll
¡™£¢∞§¶•≠œ∑´®†¥¨ˆøπ“‘«åß∂ƒ©˙∆˚¬…æΩ≈ç√∫˜µ≤≥÷

ß∂∫æ

and those are the four IPA symbols I can shortcut to atm. Might relink some more later though.

Re: LaTeX: How do you insert IPA characters?

Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2012 2:54 pm
by Morrígan
I use Ekaya in Windows and KMFL in Linux, which both let me use uncompiled Keyman keyboard files. Over something like the last 7 years, I've developed and refined a pretty good keyboard system for IPA and common Latin characters, including combining diacritics.

Re: LaTeX: How do you insert IPA characters?

Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2013 7:47 am
by Nexapf
Go to http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/ ... inguistics

See Alan Munn's answer:
documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont{Doulos SIL}
\begin{document}
[θɪsɪzsəmaɪpeɪ]

[ɪtsɹilijizitutaɪp]
\end{document}
This is what I do too and it works great, I can write things like [ɸʷ̥uːʲ.hi], just like that.
Bye bye copy-paste!

The flip side is that fontspec doesn't seem to understand \textit{}, and it also fucks up your Quick Build if you use TexMaker...

EDIT: I can use {\itshape text in italics} to write italics. Seems to be a common problem with fontspec. Also, txfonts in combination with fontspec will screw up the {\itshape text in italics} command as well. Luckily you don't need txfonts when you have fontspec (I think).

Re: LaTeX: How do you insert IPA characters?

Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2013 8:00 am
by Ulrike Meinhof
Jerian wrote:ß∂∫æ

and those are the four IPA symbols I can shortcut to atm. Might relink some more later though.
Uhm, those first three aren't IPA symbols. I assume you were aiming for βðʃ, but those are different from your Eszett, partial derivative and sum symbol, respectively.

I mostly use Aszev's X-SAMPA to IPA converter when I need to type IPA.

Re: LaTeX: How do you insert IPA characters?

Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2013 4:30 am
by Io
Jerian wrote:I copy/paste them from Wikipedia XD
I type into google "typing ipa" and use the first link.
Pthagnar wrote:[as though we had never won the war...]
But you didn't, you just ended up being on the winners' side. Likewise we didn't lose the war, we were just on the losers' side.

Also, thanks Gulls for asking exactly the same questions I've been wondering the same and expressing the same feelings to anything related to 'coding' that I have.