Re: latin2 keyboard in LyX 1.1.6fix1

[Roman Maurer]

Roman Maurer wrote:
> 
> I'd like to extend LyX with support for Latin-2 keyboards, I just
> don't know if I'll know enough to do this.  Could someone please
> tell me where to start (I downloaded the sources and I know some C++)?

I managed to convince LyX to display "č" when I pressed the button
with "ccaron".  I put this stupid code into kbsequence.C, function
kb_sequence::getiso() after "... c = getsym()":

        if (c == 488)  // 488 is X keycode for key ccaron
          return 232;  // this is ISO Latin 2 code for letter ccaron

Are there any plans to extend LyX keyboard input with a lookup
table or something like that?  For ISO Latin 1, lookup will luckily
be 1-1, but for ISO Latin 2, it will be more complicated, e. g.

    keycode    ISO Latin 2 letter      ISO Latin 2 code
    488        ccaron                  232
    441        scaron                  185
    446        zcaron                  190
    ...
    etc.

This would improve usefulnes of LyX for non-Latin-1-keyboard users.
-- 
        Regards,
          Roman