These are some notes on how I went about installing the tipa package. I
have no idea if they will generalize to other people's situations.

The tipa documentation actually has very good instructions, so read them
first.

As of Summer 2006, I mainly use MAC-OS X, and the z-shell. In this
situation, installation is very easy.

1) get the files, e.g.
======================

   ftp ftp.tex.ac.uk
   cd /tex-archive/fonts/
   binary
   get tipa.tar.gz
   quit
 
2. uncompress and un-tar the package wherever you want it to be
================================================================

     cd "wherever you want to be"
     tar -xzf tipa.tar.gz

This will give you a directory called `tipa' with several sub-directories
(tipa, tipa-1.2, tipa-1.3, etc.), and a README file. Read the README file,
then change into one of these (presumably tipa-1.3, unless you have some
special reason for avoiding the most recent version). Assuming you have
`make' installed on your system, then just edit the Makefile so that the
line that starts `Prefix' points to the place you put your LaTeX stuff. 

In my case, this is ~/texmf, so I made the line:

   PREFIX=/Users/doug/texmf

Then just type `make install' to the shell.

Everything may then work.

Or not. Or this may all seem like gibberish to you.

   
  Michael Eng, Division of Informatics, The University of Edinburgh, tells
  me that if you are running Debian GNU/Linux, it may be enough to do the
  following (as root):

	  apt-get install tipa tipa-type1

  He says it will download and install automatically.  Then you are ready to go!
  If this does not work for you, you may have to go through what I
  did.....(read on)

1. Download the tipa package.
============================

As above.

2. un-tar the package wherever you want it to be
================================================

As above

You now have  a directory called `tipa' with various subdirectories.

You need to copy the font and style files to wherever such things live on
your system. If all else fails, or you just want to test things, you can
put them in the same directory as the one you have your current latex
document in.

You may also have to tell LaTeX where to look for these new style and font
files.

So: create appropriate directories; copy the files there; and tell LaTeX
where to look






When I did all this some years ago, I had some more problems:

3. To get things to work, I had to do one other thing:
=====================================================

  a. link (or copy) 
	tipa/beta0624/sty/T3enc.def 
	to 
	tipa/beta0624/sty/t3enc.def 
  
	     cd tipa/beta0624/sty/
	     ln -s T3enc.def t3enc.def

     this is necessary because one of the packages looks for t3enc.def, but the
     file only exists as T3enc.def 


4. Testing
==========

Here is a minimal LaTeX file that will test what is going on for you.


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