Re: Writting Greek in Emacs

[Robert Pluim]

>>>>> On Fri, 20 Sep 2024 15:24:13 +0300, Thanos Apollo 
>>>>> <public@thanosapollo.org> said:

    Thanos> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
    >> 
    >> I'm not sure this is related.  As I wrote, it is okay for the input
    >> method not to support more than one tonos following a base character.
    >> But that does not (and should not) prevent the user from typing as
    >> many tonos accents as he/she pleases by other means.  The only
    >> requirement from Emacs is not to crash as result of displaying such
    >> sequences.

    Thanos> I think there is also a misunderstanding here about how we input
    Thanos> accents.  First we define the accent e.g "´" and then we add the 
vowel
    Thanos> "α" -> "ά".  We do not add a vowel and then "throw" accents at it, 
thus
    Thanos> it's not possible to add multiple tonos etc.

Then thereʼs no issue. Just define "´´" -> "´" etc

    Thanos> Combinations of accents have specific keybindings, usually using
    Thanos> modifier keys (Meta, Control).  Do you have any examples of quail 
or any
    Thanos> other input method that uses modifier keys?

I donʼt think thatʼs currently possible in quail. "quail.el"
explicitly says "ASCII key string".


Robert
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