This is a new beta version of TIPA.

New features (1996/06/24):

- more symbols defined by \* macro.
- \:, \;, \! commands.
- `safe' option.
- documentation much improved.

New features (1996/06/11):

- T3enc.def and tipa.sty heavily modified.
- 17 point fonts (tipa17.mf and tipass17) and a bold font (tipab10) added.
- a series of new fonts (xipa*) and new font description files
  (T3ptm.fd and T3phv.fd), which can be used with `times.sty',  created.
- a few bugs in mf source codes corrected (character height of
  `primary stress' and `secondary stress')

New features (1996/05/12):

- T3enc.def created and all the package files are modified accordingly.
- diacritics for `extIPA', `VoQS' added.

New features (1996/04/21):

- a few diacritics added (\celtpal, \opencorner)
- an optional package for drawing vowel diagrams (vowel.sty)
- many bugs corrected, documentation improved

New features (1996/03/12):

- a tentative ligtable is added.
- tone.sty for `tone letters' added.
- a few symbols added by way of TeX macros.
- macros completely rewritten.
- more accents, and easy input method for most of the accents and diacritics.
- an introductory manual, `tipaman.tex' included. (`symblist' and
  `codelist' are now merged into this file.)

FUKUI Rei