Easy Linguistics Document Writing with R Markdown

Provides 'Shiny gadgets' to search, type, and insert IPA symbols into documents or scripts, requiring only knowledge about phonetics or 'X-SAMPA'. Also provides functions to facilitate the rendering of IPA symbols in 'LaTeX' and PDF format, making IPA symbols properly rendered in all output formats. A minimal R Markdown template for authoring Linguistics related documents is also bundled with the package. Some helper functions to facilitate authoring with R Markdown is also provided.

linguisticsdown

The goal of linguisticsdown is to support Linguistics-related document writing in R Markdown, such as providing a Shiny Gadget to write and insert IPA symbols easily and functions to draw syntax tree (not implemented yet).

Installation

# CRAN
install.packages("linguisticsdown")

# Latest
#install.packages('remotes')
remotes::install_github("liao961120/linguisticsdown")

Usage

See linguisticsdown web site. Visit this site to use Shiny live demo.

To Do

1. Correct IPA segments naming errors (#3)
2. More Shiny gadget options
   • Wrap in / /, [ ], or don't wrap
   • Insert as decoded unicode
3. Draw Syntax Tree

Data Source

Thanks David R. Mortensen for his IPA data.