OT Font Question

[François Chaplais]

Le 29 sept. 08 à 20:34, Mark Swindell a écrit :

> Does anyone here know if there exists a font that combines the  
> letters that make phonemes, be they digraphs, dipthongs, or just  
> multiple letters (oo, ee, ea)?
>
> For example, the word "cough" would have three phonemic chunks: c -  
> ou - gh.
>
> But the phonetic representations of the short o phoneme (ou) and  
> the /f/ (gh) would be squished up against each other so they would  
> be recognized as a chunk, not as separate letters?  Does this make  
> sense?
>
>

I suggest you post your question at
xetex at tug.org
XeTeX is a typesetting system based on TeX, with a emphasis on the  
use of "exotic" writing systems. You question is not a TeX question,  
but you might find in this mailing list somebody who knows of an  
OpenType font with phonetic glyphs.
If you are interested, an introduction on XeTeX can be found at
http://cern.ch/XML/lgc2/xetexmain.pdf
do not feel obliged to read all of it, this is just to give you some  
perspective on what XeTeX is about and why grouping characters into  
glyphs (in arabic languages, for instance) is part of the  
preoccupations of the people behind XeTeX.

Best regards,
	François