On 02/18/2013 12:52 PM, Simos Xenitellis wrote:
On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 10:25 PM, Joshua Crowgey<jcrow...@uw.edu> wrote:
Hi xorg,
It was recommended to me in #xorg on irc that I should post this question to
your list. I hope this is appropriate.
I have been attempting to define a keyboard mapping for typing Lushootseed
(aka, Puget Salish) [iso639-3:lut]. Ideally, I will use the layout that
Dave Sienko at Tulalip has already implemented in Tauvlesoft.
http://www.tulaliplushootseed.com/NWIC-103-2009/Lushootseed%20Font%20&%20Keyboard.htm
To do so, I created a lut.symbols file which handles much of the job
(attached). Here's a snippet:
key<AD01> { [ q, Q, U0251, U252 ] };
key<AD02> { [ w, W, U01BF, U01F7 ] };
key<AD03> { [ schwa, E, schwa, SCHWA] };
key<AD04> { [ U0161, R, U0279, U027E ] };
However, I was unable to implement the mapping (shown in the link to
tulaliplushootseed.com) completely because the output of many of the upper
case (shifted) keystrokes should be a series of unicode characters rather
than a single one. That is, I have to use combining diacritics. However, I
was unable to define a series of characters in this file without generating
an error. For example, each of the following attempts fail because, from
what I can tell, there's no way to include more than a single unicode
code-point as one of the values in the array. I haven't discovered any
quoting or grouping mechanism.
---
key<AD01> { [ q, q̓, U0251, U252 ] };
---
---
key<AD01> { [ q, "q̓", U0251, U252 ] };
---
---
key<AD01> { [ q, qU0313, U0251, U252 ] };
---
---
key<AD01> { [ q, U0071U0313, U0251, U252 ] };
---
---
key<AD01> { [ q, U0071+U0313, U0251, U252 ] };
---
The question is this: is there a way to define keyboards that implement
characters that include combining diacritics in the output of specific keys?
Where can I find out more about what steps I should undertake to define an
official keyboard for typing Lushootseed on xorg?
Please let me know if this question is more appropriate for another list or
if I should refine the question in some way.
Hello,
For your requirements and the complexity of the keyboard layout, you
may have a better chance to create a keyboard layout for iBus. See
more at http://code.google.com/p/ibus/
It is possible to create a keyboard layout with XKB, however I think
it will be more complicated than necessary.
If you are happy to make something quick and dirty, you can create the
necessary compose sequences and put them in ~/.Xcompose
Simos
Hello Simos,
Thank you for the suggestions. In fact, I did get something working by
creating an .XCompose file (should it be .Xcompose with lower c?). And
at one point, I even got that working. I had to set some environment
variables such as GTK_IM_MODULE=xim and I think I had to run imswitch
and set it to SCIM? In any case, I went away for a week and haven't
gotten that approach working again. It would be nice if there was a
setxcompose command that let me dynamically set the xcompose file or
not. When typing in English, for example, I don't want the XCompose
file to be active. I want it active after switching to Lushootseed.
I also played around with ibus but it seems to be a bit tricky to get
working on debian testing at the moment. My package manager is chocking
on an ibus dependency of im-clutter, which seems to have some sort of
error as of the last time I tried to install it.
In short, I appreciate the reply and I'll try renaming my ~/.XCompose to
~/.Xcompose to see if that makes a difference with automatically finding it.
Best regards,
--Joshua
PS: here is my XCompose file as I have authored it:
jcrowgey@citrus:~$ cat ~/.XCompose
<Q> : "q̓"
<W> : "w̓"
<E> : "q̓ʷ"
<R> : ""
<T> : "t̕"
<Y> : "y̓"
<U> : ""
<I> : "kʷ"
<O> : ""
<P> : "p̓"
<A> : "qʷ"
<S> : ""
<D> : "dᶻ"
<F> : ""
<G> : "gʷ"
<H> : ""
<J> : "k̓ʷ"
<K> : "k̓"
<L> : "l̕"
<colon> : "ƛ̕"
<z> : "x̌"
<Z> : "x̌ʷ"
<X> : "xʷ"
<C> : "c̓"
<V> : "č̓"
<B> : ""
<N> : "n̓"
<M> : "m̓"
The one time I got this working, I ran 'setxkbmap lut' to set the keys
that didn't require combining diacritics.
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