I’m doing linguistics at university. I’ve been using phonmap for a lot of my assignments, and it has been very useful so far. It has limitations however, it does not have every phoneme. One in particular that has bothered me is the lack of open-mid front unrounded vowel.
What I’m looking for is something similar (not just a font for Word) that has a much more comprehensive bank of phonemes, and not just ones that appear in English. If it had optional diacritic marks that would be a massive bonus.
Is there anything like that out there? I’m willing to pay!
No need to pay, just a willingness to use (or learn to use) LaTeX for writing your assignments. Then you can use TIPA to generate any IPA symbol with any kind of diacritic you’d want. If you’re doing or plan to do other kinds of linguistics besides phonetics, such as OT phonology, or syntax that involves tree- or AVM-based representations, or writing papers that use numbered examples, possibly with data from foreign languages that require word-for-word aligned glosses, LaTeX is, in the long run, a huge help and time saver. I cannot recommend it enough.
Okay, great. In talking it up so much I probably should have also said to expect a bit of a learning curve at first. You have to learn an HTML-like language. But as I said, well worth it in the long run.
I also came into recommend LaTeX and to make a similar comment. In a way, the difficulty curve is almost exactly the opposite of Word: making your first document will be incredibly painful as you have to work your way up to doing all the simple things, but once you have a certain base level of knowledge, you can do anything without too much trouble. If you’re serious about picking it up, The LaTeX Companion is highly recommended.