A chairde,

I'm looking for information on how to represent the simplified version of IPA fonts in general. For example, how would I represent the schwa and lower-case gamma when posting a message in Yahoo groups? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Go raibh maith agaibh,

Student of Irish Linguistics
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/irishlinguistics/

/@/ will do for the schwa

/Y/ for gamma

(e) vowels in brackets can do for glides. their position can tell you about on or off glides.

The thing is to set up a convention, ad stick to it.

I will make up a text in Gentium and simplified IPA tonight, based on how I use it. I might be useful

A Robert,

Go raibh maith agat. Larry Ackerman had also provided the idea of checking the html codes that represent the IPA symbols here on the daltaí, so I'll have to give that a try also once I figure it out.

Try using "Lucida sans unicode" font - it is universally available and makes IPA writing a piece-of-cake

Go raibh maith agat, a Róman. What I'm failing to understand is how I can type IPA symbols when posting a message directly in a Yahoo group. Would I load a font like Lucida or is there a sequence of keystrokes to represent an IPA symbol that can be seen by other members reading the posting?

If anyone can demonstrate with an example that would be greatly appreciated.

Try using HTML character codes:

Type an ampersand: &
Then a hash: #
Then an 'x': x
Then the hexadecimal code of the character
Then a semi-colon.

Here's an example of 2022, which is a bullet character:

• • • • • •

Thanks Fear_na_mbróg,

I gave it a try on one of the Yahoo groups but still no luck.

www.inneall.net/codes.doc

this is a suggestion for computers (like in colleges...)which will not show the fonts right