Hi Alexander, I am rather new to APL and had similar issues.
There are various paths to get APL symbols running. I didn't want to spend a modifier key (CTRL/META/SUPER/...) for apl. So I went the path to utilize .XCompose, see attached example. So I press f.e. '.'(period) and than follow with '$' - resulting in '⍋'. If you want to get the actual period, you'll have to press period twice. For sure, you can exchange the period with another compose key.
# APL Characters # https://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.7/doc/libX11/i18n/compose/en_US.UTF-8.html <period> <period> : "." <period> <dead_grave> : "⋄" <period> s : "⌈" <period> <exclam> : "⌶" <period> <1> : "¨" <period> <at> : "⍫" <period> <2> : "¯" <period> <numbersign> : "⍒" <period> <3> : "<" <period> <dollar> : "⍋" <period> <4> : "≤" <period> <percent> : "⌽" <period> <5> : "=" <period> <dead_circumflex> : "⍉" <period> <6> : "≥" <period> <ampersand> : "⊖" <period> <7> : ">" <period> <asterisk> : "⍟" <period> <8> : "≠" <period> <parenleft> : "⍱" <period> <9> : "∨" <period> <parenright> : "⍲" <period> <0> : "∧" <period> <underscore> : "!" <period> <minus> : "×" <period> <plus> : "⌹" <period> <equal> : "÷" <period> <q> : "?" <period> <W> : "⍹" <period> <w> : "⍵" <period> <E> : "⍷" <period> <e> : "∊" <period> <r> : "⍴" <period> <T> : "⍨" <period> <t> : "∼" <period> <Y> : "¥" <period> <y> : "↑" <period> <u> : "↓" <period> <I> : "⍸" <period> <i> : "⍳" <period> <O> : "⍥" <period> <o> : "○" <period> <P> : "⍣" <period> <p> : "⋆" <period> <braceleft> : "⍞" <period> <bracketleft> : "←" <period> <braceright> : "⍬" <period> <bracketright> : "→" <period> <bar> : "⊣" <period> <backslash> : "⊢" <period> <A> : "⍶" <period> <a> : "⍺" <period> <s> : "⌈" <period> <d> : "⌊" <period> <F> : "⍫" <period> <f> : "_" <period> <g> : "∇" <period> <H> : "⍙" <period> <h> : "∆" <period> <J> : "⍤" <period> <j> : "∘" <period> <K> : "⌺" <period> <k> : "'" <period> <L> : "⌷" <period> <l> : "⎕" <period> <colon> : "≡" <period> <semicolon> : "⍎" <period> <quotedbl> : "≢" <period> <apostrophe> : "⍕" <period> <z> : "⊂" <period> <X> : "χ" <period> <x> : "⊃" <period> <C> : "⍧" <period> <c> : "∩" <period> <v> : "∪" <period> <B> : "£" <period> <b> : "⊥" <period> <n> : "⊤" <period> <m> : "|" <period> <less> : "⍪" <period> <comma> : "⍝" <period> <greater> : "⍀" <period> <question> : "⍠" <period> <slash> : "⌿" <period> <adiaeresis> : "[" <period> <Adiaeresis> : "]"
So - installation quite easy, drop .XCompose in your Home-directory and start an xterm to test, whether it works. For sure, you'll need a fitting font having the APL-symbols and locale UTF8. br Florian Alexander Shendi (Web.DE) <alexander.she...@web.de> writes: > Dear List, > > I feel seriously intellectually challenged. I have compiled gnu apl under > NetBSD (SVN-1271) and all went fine. > > But I'm just not up to configuring the X Window System to support APL input > and output. These are the steps I've taken so far: > 1. set the locale to en_US. UTF-8 (by setting LC_ALL=en_US. UTF-8). > 2. Compile the file trunk/ > support-files/old-Keyboard/apl.xkm resulting in a file apl.xkb in the current > directory. > 3. Try to configure the keyboard. A sample session looks like: (see attached > typescript). > 4. I have not even attempted to add the APL fonts to a font directory. More > fun. > > Is there any guide on doing this? ELI5, preferably in words of one syllable > or less. > > Or should I give up on APL altogether? > > With frustrated salutations, > > -- Alexander -- Dipl. Ing. (FH) Otto Diesenbacher-Reinmüller diesenbacher.net Salzburg, Österreich
