Re: [PyX-devel] PyX Fink package.

[Andre W. <wo...@us...>]

Hi,

On 06.12.04, Gert Ingold wrote:
> > If there is not any other "more" standard package to produce phonetic
> > transliteration, the png solution it should be ok.
> 
> tipa is usually considered to be *the* package for phonetic typesetting.
> I will try to come up with a working png solution. (Andre, Jörg: do you
> agree?)

I totally agree. And I do not really like the idea to give up tipa due
to the dependency it creates for *building* a package. (I think the
final package would not need to have this dependency.) For the
official build as we distribute it on the PyX webpage (note that we
decided to skip distributing the compiled manual and faq within the
distribution to greatly reduce its memory footprint after some
discussion on this list or the users list -- I don't remember exactly)
I would like to keep the tipa solution.

However, I see the point of wanting a tipa-free ability to generate a
almost optimal form of the faq. There are two possibilities: allow for
a build by just skipping the phonetic transliterations or generate
png's (pdf's?) for the usecases we need and include it in the
distribution. The pdf-solution, when it's possible, might be a way to
completely remove the tipa dependency as soon as you have the pdf
snipplets, which we could include in the distribution. This might be a
way out of splitting the faq-generation into an full and a poor man's
solution. Somebody how wants to try whether this option is not just a
rash thought?


André

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