Combine components of IPA complex phones in single <c>?

Mixtec has numerous complex phones e.g. (“nd”, “kw”, “ndʒ”, "nts", etc.) which are phonologically a single unit. In the old Praat annotation I separated all phonetic units by manner of articulation and thus split up many.

e.g.

                <w xml:id="d1e81" synch="#T6">
                     <c>n</c>
                     <c>ts</c>
                     <c>a</c>
                     <c function="tone">T</c>
                     <c>ʔ</c>
                     <c>n</c>
                     <c>i</c>
                     <c function="tone">H</c>
                  </w>
                  <w xml:id="d1e98" synch="#T14">
                     <c>ɲ</c>
                     <c>a</c>
                     <c function="tone">F</c>
                  </w>
                  <w xml:id="d1e105" synch="#T17">
                     <c>n</c>
                     <c>ts</c>
                     <c>ḭ</c>
                     <c function="tone">T</c>
                     <c>ʔ</c>
                     <c>ḭ</c>
                     <c function="tone">T</c>
                  </w>

This makes searching for phonological strings a pain and it means despite my overly meticulous Praat annotation the encoding of the phonology is not complete. These strings in context are predictable and will not occur in sequence when not part of the given complex phone, thus automatic combining should not be to complex or risk incorrect grouping.

iljackb / Mixtepec_Mixtec

Combine components of IPA complex phones in single <c>? #48