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Subject: Re: Phonemic/phonetic typefaces
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> This is, as they say, "on behalf of colleagues not on the net" at
> Cambridge University Linguistics Department.  They are working on
> speech, especially with reference to accent, in relation to speech
> synthesis/recognition, and publishing working papers with
> phonetic/phonemic material included.  At present they have to put those
> bits in by hand.  It seems to me that TeX could do a good job of
> typesetting such material, IFF someone has made some suitable fonts.
> We don't have Metafont working here, and anyway I don't know enough about
> phonetic script to be able to design fonts for it.
> 
> Has anyone produced such fonts?


I know that someone at Bell Labs, Murray Hill has written a paper
describing a preprocessor for troff that produces the Sanskrit
Devanagari script. (If I remember right, the person's name is
A. Driscoll.) This might be of interest to you because Devanagari 
is an entirely phonetic script: each letter is a syllable. The
problems you might encounter with "phonetic script" (I assume
this is a script for English) are likely to be similar to those
presented by Devanagari.

			S. Rajeev   ihnp4!attunix!rajeev.