>That having said, the I still don't get the point you make about tone-sandhis and such. How do you propose they be incorporated? I haven't given it much thoug

>That having said, the I still don't get the point you make about tone-sandhis and such. How do you propose they be incorporated? I haven't given it much thought, but I would just write the tone with the unique combination of the phonology and the pitch level function that it actually has. Sheet music does this. A difficulty in this approach would be defining a standardized tone sandhi, and the learning curve required for users to understand and write it.