On Sunday 30 November 2003 18:40, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> As of XFree 4.3 the Xkb can mix-and-match Groups. Up until 4.2.1 the
> "il" layout had to assume the the Israeli group will be the second group
> and that the first group will be US-English (see the xkb/symbols/il of
> XFree 4.1.0 - 4.2.1 as to exactly why also US). In XFree 4.3 you ask for
> a layout of "us,il" and it is translated to a layout with the Groups
> "us" and "il". You can have "il,us,ru" if you want.
I don't understand. What is the different between a group, a variant and a
keyboard layout? (I thought that group = general keyboard layout, while
variant was, different variants on the general kind of keyboard layout, i.e.
the group. But now you speak of a whole group, which I don't understand,
since if I use lyx, I don't use si1452 and vice versa, so what changed in
XFree86 3.2? Plus, couldn't we have had 3 layouts concurrently in the past?)
> > So what's the difference between lyx and si 1452?
>
> Mainly: in "lyx" the special characters are all (except the hyphen) in
> shifted Hebrew letters, instead of the capital English letters.
>
> In si1452 the added characters reside in a third shift level of the
> Israeli layout, and nikud characters are generally on the keyboard keys
> of the numbers.
Thanks for clearing this up. Could anybody post a graphical representation of
these keyboard layouts to IGLU?
Arie
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