Re: Modifying Keyboards for Special Characters
>There are Hebrew keyboards that either place vowel signs in control/number
>positions or swap them with numbers and put the numbers in control/number.
>The Dagesh word processor used keyboards like this. Aside from charmap type
>applets, there is no other way to get them into Openoffice, etc.
>(Of course, once there, no guarantee the WP can place them correctly but that
>is another issue. Last tried, OO did not work, Kword did.)
>How do I modify the keyboard layouts to get such characters?
Look what I found: Go to the KDE setup->accessibility->keyboard layouts.
One has four, count 'em, Hebrew layouts there: basic, lyx, phonetic and
biblical.
The lyx layout has nikud (Hebrew vowel symbols) and trop (cantillation symbols
for chanting biblical passages) on certain shifted keys. The biblical layout
has them with caps/lock. Now, if I could only see the layout to be able to
use and learn it conveniently. (Dagesh has a different layout and has clicked
keyboard arrays as aids.)
... and, entered from these layouts rather than imported (Hebrew/bidi RTF is
broken in recent OO for quite a while now), they are displayed (almost)
correctly in OO!
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