Re: composed characters question and suggestions for quail-cyrillic-*

[Juri Linkov]

> JL> It is too bad to drop ("e'" ?э) since it is a frequently used letter.
> JL> I propose to add a rule ("e\\" ?э) because `э' is named REVERSED E,
> JL> and REVERSE SOLIDUS `\' has similar mnemonics.
>
> OK.  Thanks for fixing these two issues.  I think this is a very nice
> input method for Cyrillic now, after all your help.

Hmm, the more I think about our latest changes, the more problems I see ;-)

One main problem is that only 5 vowels have the rules with the combining
accent.  But there are more vowels that require it.  And most of them
are multi-key, so e.g. a rule like ("ju" ?ю) will be extended into 3-key
sequence ("ju'" ["ю́"]).  This will over-complicate the current rules.

A better solution is to create a separate rule for the combining
accent.  Since the combining accent is a separate character we can create
a separate rule for it!  So we can leave only two composite rules
("i`" ?ѝ) ("I`" ?Ѝ) because their accent is not a separate character.
And then remove composite rules for the existing 5 vowels, and use
a new rule to input the combining accent character.

But currently I see no good key to input a separate accent because
a natural key sequence /' is already assigned to the single quote
character ’.  Could you propose a good key for the combining acute accent
and for combining grave accent?  Maybe ("\\'" ?́) and ("\\`" ?̀)?

-- 
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/