HOW TO embed IPA transcriptions in a LaTeX document.

If the UNIX system you are using does not yet have the 
tipa font, download it from Rei Fukui's tipa page at:

http://www.l.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~fkr/tipa/

and follow his instructions on how to install it.

At the beginning of your document, where you define what 
fonts to use besides the default ones and so on, have the 
following include statement:

\usepackage[tone]{tipa}

and then \textipa{N} in the text will give you engma,
/\textipa{\*r}/ will give you the English "turned r"
symbol, and so on.  

There are various lists and charts for the names of the 
different symbols, but the one I find most helpful is 
Matt Makashay's cheat sheet, which is arranged in the 
same way as the IPA consonant and vowel charts.   See 
the document tipachart.pdf that is linked into this web
page.