Re: Modifying Keyboards for Special Characters
David Baron <d_baron@012.net.il>:
> >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
>
> 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!
Man, and I thought the Dvorak keyboard nuts were weird. :-)
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