# fcitx5-ipa-sil

This is an IME for [Fctix 5](https://fcitx-im.org/wiki/Fcitx_5) that brings support for the [SIL IPA](https://keyman.com/keyboards/sil_ipa) input method.

This allows the user to type IPA characters fairly easly by inputing only ASCII.

Here are a few examples of SIL to IPA conversions:

| IPA | SIL  |
|-----|------|
| ə   | `e=` |
| ʃ   | `s=` |
| ŋ   | `n>` |
| a   | `a`  |

**This is still a work-in-progress**! This is mostly a rough draft to allow me to follow my phonetics class on a computer. I didn't put much thought into getting it to work for other people's needs! Feel free to send me suggestions though \:)

## Building & trying it out!

```console
 $ mkdir -p build/
 $ cd build/
 $ cmake ../ -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr
 $ make
 $ sudo make install
```

You can then restart fcitx, and add the "SIL IPA" input method to your available input methods!