Hi everyone,
I have been using the IPA MSKCL to conveniently type IPA characters until now, but as I was configuring my new notebook, I saw that the use of the MSKCL was discouraged, or at least outdated, so I installed Keyman (Windows 10 Home).
It does take some getting used to, but it works fine. However, I cannot figure out why the closing brace will not work for me. Everything else seems to work fine, but primary and secondary stress (as well as fortis/weird-snakey lenis signs) are inaccessible somehow, observe:
I type: [h}e__nt}}e__], I want: [ˈhe̞nˌte̞], but I receive: [he̞nte̞]
I tried it across platforms and programmes (Facebook, Google, WordPad, Word, here). I have also gone through all other possible combinations, and everything seems to be in order, even the opening brace “{” is accessible and does what it is supposed to.
On a side note, hypothetically, how would I avoid typing a lenis when I wanted a primary stress + fortis? I mean, “}}}}” is lenis, but “}}}” is fortis and “}” is primary stress. So, if I had something like Korean [oˈp͈a], I would probably type: [op}}}}a], but that would render as [op᷂a]*, would it not? Is the Combining Grapheme Joiner indicated here, i.e. [op}=<}}}a]?
Thank you in advance, and I hope my question hasn’t been asked before (I couldn’t find much), or isn’t formulated too confusingly to understand.
*I have never seen that snakey-wiggle, by the way. What a peculiar little diacritic.