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

[Juri Linkov]

> JL> A better solution is to create a separate rule for the combining
> JL> accent.  Since the combining accent is a separate character we can create
> JL> a separate rule for it!  So we can leave only two composite rules
> JL> ("i`" ?ѝ) ("I`" ?Ѝ) because their accent is not a separate character.
> JL> And then remove composite rules for the existing 5 vowels, and use
> JL> a new rule to input the combining accent character.
>
> JL> But currently I see no good key to input a separate accent because
> JL> a natural key sequence /' is already assigned to the single quote
> JL> character ’.  Could you propose a good key for the combining acute accent
> JL> and for combining grave accent?  Maybe ("\\'" ?́) and ("\\`" ?̀)?
>
> //' and //` would work.  Let's stick with / as the "extended charset"
> trigger, so // would be the "character attributes" trigger.  It could
> also do //~, //c (cedilla), //^ (superscript), //_ (subscript), etc. in
> a more generic multi-use input method.  But for now those two are
> sensible.

I suggested \\' because this rule is already used by latin-ltx
LaTeX-like input method.  But since \ is part of TeX syntax,
it makes sense only for latin-ltx.  So I see no better rule
than your proposed //' and //`.

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