Need help to create a french illume keyboard

Pander pander at users.sourceforge.net
Sat Dec 27 15:08:20 CET 2008


This is how I solved it for the Dutch language, check out the README
file in the package.

Xavier Cremaschi wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I am currently looking at keyboards layout in
>      /usr/lib/enlightenment/modules/illume/keyboards/
> 
> The syntax seems simple :
> key x  y  w  h
>    normal   ' apostrophe
>    shift    " quotedbl
>    capslock ' apostrophe
> 
> But I cannot find any doc/blog/thread/keyboard with "composing features" 
> in it.
> 
> I need to put "few" big keys (for fingers, not stylus).
> I also need to write in French or Spanish so I need to easily write any 
> combination of aeiou (respectively AEIOU) and ´`^¨ (and also Ñ ñ Ç ç...)
> 
> On my computers I usually use QWERTY keyboard with "US International", 
> which gives powerful composing possibilities to the user, see :
>      http://www.cs.umu.se/~hegner/Misc/Windowskb/windows0x.png
> 
> Therefore I would like to create this kind of key :
> key x  y  w  h
>    normal   e "e"
>    shift    E "E"
>    diacritic1 é "é"
>    diacritic2 è "è"
>    diacritic3 ê "ê"
>    shift+diacritic1 É "É"
>    shift+diacritic2 È "È"
>    shift+diacritic3 Ê "Ê"
> etc
> 
> I would like :
> - to have 3 or 4 toggles that would modify the key layout and behaviour 
> (like the weel-known shift key that e->E or E->e)
> - or to have one super "shift" key with multiple states, which would 
> cycle between 4 or 5 states, for example normal_keyboard, ´_keyboard, 
> `_keyboard, ^_keyboard
> 
> 
> Till now I have found shift and capslock, I would like to know how I can 
> create new states and how I can combine them.
> 
> If it is not possible, maybe I can put X in us international but :
>      setxbmap us_intl
> can't work because setxkbmap does not seem to be packaged
> And the problem with this solution is the lack of graphical stuff, the 
> user will have to KNOW that ' is a composing key and that he has to type 
> ' + c to make a ç
> 
> Thanks in advance for any kind of help.
> Xavier Cremaschi.
> 
> 
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