On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 03:52:56PM +0200, David Baron wrote: > >There are Hebrew keyboards that either place vowel signs in control/number > >positions or swap them with numbers and put the numbers in control/number. > >The Dagesh word processor used keyboards like this. Aside from charmap type > >applets, there is no other way to get them into Openoffice, etc. > > >(Of course, once there, no guarantee the WP can place them correctly but > >that > >is another issue. Last tried, OO did not work, Kword did.) > > >How do I modify the keyboard layouts to get such characters? > > Look what I found: Go to the KDE setup->accessibility->keyboard layouts. > One has four, count 'em, Hebrew layouts there: basic, lyx, phonetic and > biblical.
Anybody actually uses "phonetic"? > > The lyx layout has nikud (Hebrew vowel symbols) and trop (cantillation > symbols > for chanting biblical passages) on certain shifted keys. The biblical layout > has them with caps/lock. Now, if I could only see the layout to be able to > use and learn it conveniently. (Dagesh has a different layout and has clicked > keyboard arrays as aids.) Any utility better thn xkbprint (xkbprint -lg 2 :0) to display the layout? -- Tzafrir Cohen | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | best ICQ# 16849754 | | friend -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
