Re: Writting Greek in Emacs

[Thanos Apollo]

Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com> writes:

>>>>>> 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
>

The issue is that some greek input methods, such as greek-polytinic
that was recommended, have that in reverse.  They first add a character
and then the user can throw unlimited accents at it, e.g

ᾴ́́́́́́́́́́́́́́́́́́́́̔̔̔̔̔̔̔̔̔̔̓̓̈̈̈̈̈̈̈̈̈̈̈̈̈̈̈̈̈̈̈̈̈̈̈̈̈̈ͅͅͅͅͅͅͅͅ

This should be considered a different language, not Greek.

>     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".
>

Thank you, do you have any ideas of how to approach creating an input method 
that
uses modifier keys?

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Thanos Apollo
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