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From: | Amit Ramon |
Subject: | Re: [emacs-bidi] Hebrew LyX input method for a US English Dvorak keyboard layout |
Date: | Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:30:38 +0300 |
User-agent: | Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) |
Kenichi Handa <address@hidden> [2010-06-29 11:40 +0900]:
In article <address@hidden>, Amit Ramon <address@hidden> writes:Bottom line - you don't need to write a new input method in order to support a non-standard keyboard layout - all you have to do is tell Emacs about it.Right, But, for that, Emacs have to know suffiecient number of layouts. Currently, it knows only about: standard (similar to VT100), sun-type3, atari-german, pc102-de, jp106, pkc105-uk I'm going to add dvorak soon, but, if there's a way to generate such database (semi-)automatically (perhaps from XKB database), that's very helpful.
If I may, I would suggest that you call the dvorak layout you plan to add 'us-dvorak' - this is actually what it is. People may create layouts for other languages that are also based on the "dvorak concept" and call them something-dvorak. As for generating a quail-layout-description from the xkb database, technically it is, of course, possible, but on how many different layouts are we talking about? If there are not so many, maybe it would be simpler to do it manually. The xkb files seem complex to parse.
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