Need help to create a french illume keyboard

Pander pander at users.sourceforge.net
Sat Dec 27 15:54:30 CET 2008


and the URL is...

http://www.opkg.org/package_75.html

;)

Pander wrote:
> 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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