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Re: devanagari diacritics
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Rustom Mody |
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Re: devanagari diacritics |
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Wed, 23 Oct 2013 19:35:24 +0530 |
On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 7:12 PM, Stefan Monnier
<address@hidden> wrote:
>> '(("A" ?ā)
>
> C-u C-\ TeX RET,
Yeah I know about the tex input method
> then put cursor on the ā character, then C-u C-x =
So I learn the keyboard version of M-x describe-char -- thanks :-)
> will tell you that \=a lets you input this char.
Ok... but I am not sure what point you are making.
This input method is for someone who needs to type out a significant
amount of devanagari.
In particular I am attempting to replicate the emacs input method
devanagari-itrans
see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITRANS
The current devanagari-itrans converts itrans input into devanagari proper
This input method would convert itrans into romanized diacritics.
In any case, my current version (after David's last input) stands at this:
----------------
(require 'quail)
(quail-define-package
"devanagari-diacritic" "UTF-8" "अ" t
"Example diacritic
" nil t t nil t nil nil nil nil nil t)
;; that last line copied it from something David de la Harpe Golden wrote
(defvar devanagari-map
'(("A" ?ā)
("I" ?ī)
("U" ?ū)
;("RRi" ?ṛ) ; or should it be the following?
("RRi" ["r̥"]) ; see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_15919#Comparison_with_UNRSGN_and_IAST
("LLi" ?ḷ)
("c" ["ch"])
("~N" ?ṅ)
("~n" ?ñ)
("N" ?ṇ)
("T" ?ṭ)
("D" ?ḍ)
("sh" ?ś)
("Sh" ?ṣ)
)
"The basic sructure for converting Itrans devanagari into diacritics
Many details to be filled in after consulting experts
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITRANS
"
)
;; an 'interpreter' for the above
;; Surely such function must exist somewhere??
(defun quail-block-defrules (quail-map quail-package)
(dolist (key-trans quail-map)
(let ((key (car key-trans))
(trans (cadr key-trans)))
(quail-defrule key trans quail-package))))
(quail-block-defrules devanagari-map "devanagari-diacritic")