Re: Modifying Keyboards for Special Characters
On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 03:52:56PM +0200, David Baron wrote:
> >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.
Anybody actually uses "phonetic"?
>
> 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.)
Any utility better thn xkbprint (xkbprint -lg 2 :0) to display the
layout?
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