Re: [emacs-bidi] Hebrew input methods

[Scot Becker]

Yair,

This looks great, I'll be very glad to get bidi+Hebrew working in Emacs.  

I'm not sure what sort of suggestions you're open to, but having never learned to use an Israeli keyboard, I most enjoy using a layout that is anglo-friendly, like the' SIL' layout which SBL also offers.  

http://www.sbl-site.org/Fonts/BiblicalHebrewSILManual.pdf


and here's a quick summary of the consonant and vowel layout itself:

http://faculty.bbc.edu/rdecker/documents/SILHebKey.pdf

The advantage of this for me is that they use a more or less phonetic mapping, and have a clever way of mapping vowels (e.g. 'e' for segol, 'E' for tsere;  'a' for patach, 'A' for qamets, see the second PDF link).  This of course would be nightmarish for anyone used to typing on a proper Israeli keyboard, but it's very quick for those of us who aren't used to it.  It feels just like writing transliterated Hebrew.  The only things a person has to learn outright is where to put the letters with an ambiguous transliteration (tet, sin, shin).  The 'Tiro' mapping still uses a basically Israeli layout for the consonants, which is more memory overhead for me.

And if the layout can auto-manage the final letter forms, that's a very nice plus as well.

Scot

On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 10:23 PM, Yair F <address@hidden> wrote:

Hello all,

I intend to do some work related to composition of vowel and
cantillation marks..
To test the composition code a way to add these marks is needed. As
the OS does not support adding these an input method is in place.

There are 4 input methods I intend to add to Emacs

1. SI 1452:  Somewhat complex and only partially implemented on common
OS. It doesn't include cantillation marks.
Image of this mapping is here:
http://img175.imageshack.us/img175/1032/si1452layout.png

2. LyX: Used in X environment - more logical and easy to use,. Also
doesn't include cantillation marks.
Image of this mapping is here:
http://img294.imageshack.us/img294/8225/lyxlayout.png

3. Biblical-Tiro: A complete method. However, it is directed towards
biblical Hebrew and is not convenient for modern Hebrew users.
The tiro Guide is here:
http://www.sbl-site.org/Fonts/BiblicalHebrewTiroManual.pdf

4. Emacs: For a lack of a better name. Intend to be modern Hebrew
oriented and complete.
Image of this mapping is here:
http://img153.imageshack.us/img153/7289/emacslayout.png

The grey background image is a common implementation of a Hebrew
keyboard. the black letters are the actual keys assigned.
For Vowel marks I added them illustrated with base letters, the input
method only add the mark.

I would greatly appreciate any comments or suggestions you have for
those mappings.

Thanks,
Yair


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