Only because it was your suggestion, David, unless I misunderstood an earlier discussion about this. I was originally going to just add X-SAMPA and keep the Trillium and Webster notations there for backward compatibility, but I thought you suggested just getting rid of them.
I'm happy to keep them, but they would only be options when working with English. I would suggest, however, that the tools eventually transition to using either IPA or X-SAMPA internally as the canonical form since they are language independent.
Eric
On Oct 19, 2006, at 6:18 PM, David Hill wrote: Hi Eric,* to the user. Support for Websters notation has been eliminated.
The reason for having Webster's in there was so that non-technical people could readily relate their individual dictionary requirements to a standard dictionary pronunciation notation -- given that PrEditor is intended for personalised (per Individual or Application) extensions/substitutions for what the main dictionary & letter-to-sound rules deliver.
I can see why you'd like to have SAMPA-X in there, but why eliminate the Webster's notation.
Best.
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