Re: MUPAK - McVeagh's Unicode Phonetic Alphabet Keyboard!

On Sun, 17 Nov 2002 01:32:20 +0000, Mat McVeagh <matmcv@...> wrote:

>There are many problems with this version 1, which is just a test version.
>Please reply with your suggestions, observations, help, alterations. But
>please hurry because I will only be able to use the keyboard editor for
>another 15 days. N.B. I will still be nomail so please bung my own email
>address in one of the To fields to make sure I read what you say.
One thing you might want to keep in mind is that the Ctrl key is often used
for menu shortcuts like Ctrl+F for "find" or Ctrl+B for "bold", and the
left Alt key navigates through menus (e.g., Alt+F in most programs brings
up the File menu). I like to use mainly the Shift and right Alt keys. I
usually reserve the Shift key + letter combinations for the more frequently
used letters. So for instance, Shift+T is "theta" in my IPA keyboard
(instead of the rarely used "turned t", which was an old symbol for one of
the click sounds).

In my IPA keyboard (http://www.io.com/~hmiller/kmx/IPA.kmx), I use
combinations of Right Alt + letter to modify the preceding character.
RAlt+T turns the character 180 degrees, for instance, and RAlt+S makes it
into a superscript. RAlt + the '=' key makes ligatures like "oe" or "ts",
or makes arbitrary changes to some characters like the "i" into a reverse
fishhook. Unfortunately, I don't have any documentation for this keyboard.
If there's any interest, I'll write some.

Also in http://www.io.com/~hmiller/kmx/ are two earlier versions of the IPA
keyboard, one based on X-SAMPA (XSIPA.kmx) and the other based on CPA
(CPAIPA.kmx). The CPA-based mappings still work in the current IPA
keyboard, so if you remember that {6} is [Q], for instance, you don't have
to type {Shift+A}{Alt+T} to get the same result. I also have Arabic,
Cherokee, Devanagari, Hebrew, Latin, and Thai keyboards if anyone wants
them (also at http://www.io.com/~hmiller/kmx/). One of these days I'm going
to have to write up some documentation for them.

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