The tipa
package is by far the most common method of providing
IPA (and other phonetic symbol) capabilities to LaTeX documents. To use
this package, include the following in your document's preamble:
\usepackage{tipa}
The TIPA Manual
provides extensive documentation on the package, including a useful list of phonetic
symbols and their correspondnig TIPA input(s). Perhaps the most common
way of using the package is to include
phonetc symbol inputs inside a textipa{}
environment.
For example:
Here is \textipa{["s@mTIN]}.will produce the following output:
Use of this package is fairly straightfoward, and the manual will be of great help for looking up symbols.
If you use the textipa
environment frequently, you
may wish to make a shorter name for it.
Something like \newcommand{\ipa}{\textipa}
will work for this and allow you to use \ipa{}
instead of
\textipa{}
.
If you frequently surround transcriptions with brackets ([])
or slashes (//), you may wish to create commands to make this easier.
For example, I often define something like \newcommand{\nt}[1]{\textipa{[#1]}}
for narrow transcriptions (conventionally surrounded in brackets),
and then \nt{o}
produces [o] as output. Similarly, you
could define \newcommand{\wt}[1]{\textipa{/#1/}}
for
wide transcriptions, and \wt{i}
would produce /i/.