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I am inputting TIPA code for some African languages. I encountered a problem with inputting floating tone. The floating tone is a high tone (\') or a low tone (`) over a space instead of over any symbol.

If I input \'{ } or `{ }, the tone symbols drop to the bottom of the line, while they are supposed to be above the space. How can I deal with this problem? Thanks! 

\documentclass{article} 
\usepackage{tipa} 
\begin{document} 
\begin{IPA} 
aa\'{ } aa`{ } 
\end{IPA} 
\end{document}
mxue
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    Please help us help you and add a minimal working example (MWE) that illustrates your problem. Reproducing the problem and finding out what the issue is will be much easier when we see compilable code, starting with \documentclass{...} and ending with \end{document}. – DG' Feb 25 '16 at 14:23

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For the high tone you can use: \textceltpal

For the low tone you can use: \textquoteleft

So to adjust your MWE:

\documentclass{article} 
\usepackage{tipa} 
\begin{document} 

Instead of:

    \begin{IPA} 
        aa\'{ } aa`{ } 
    \end{IPA} 

You can use:

    \begin{IPA} 
        aa \textceltpal aa \textquoteleft 
    \end{IPA} 

\end{document}

edit: Used advice from barbara beeton

Mensch
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InteressantPunt
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    Can you please add a MWE? Good answers should provide a MWE to give the op (and other readers) an easy way to proof the solution ... – Mensch Feb 25 '16 at 14:56
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    i think you want to leave an explicit space between the two example strings. – barbara beeton Feb 25 '16 at 15:01
  • Thank you! The \textceltpal might work. But I do not think \textquoteleft produces the same tone mark as '{ } does. '{ } is an acute accent (representing a high tone) according to TIPA, while \textquoteleft produces a reversed apostrophe (representing week aspiration). – mxue Feb 26 '16 at 16:59
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The answer is surprisingly simple!

If you provide an argument to \' or the like, it will measure that character to decide where to put the accent.

But if you provide no argument, it gives you a "floating" diacritic.

a\'{}a\`{}a

Output: output of the above

MWE:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tipa}
\begin{document}
\begin{IPA}
\LARGE{}a\'{}a\`{}a
\end{IPA}
\end{document}
Draconis
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  • \LARGE does not take an argument like that. The correct usage would be {\LARGE a\'{}a\{}a\par}`. – Phelype Oleinik May 20 '19 at 03:16
  • @PhelypeOleinik Oops, my mistake. Curiously, it gives the same result either way. – Draconis May 20 '19 at 03:24
  • Yes, it does give the same result in this case. However try \LARGE{This should be LARGE} and this should not and then {\LARGE This should be LARGE} and this should not to see the difference. – Phelype Oleinik May 20 '19 at 04:52