Hi Paul!
On Tue, 10 Jan 2006 Paul Bennett wrote:
>
> I downloaded the Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator. I'm going to make a
> Thagojian keyboard. I'm also thinking about making a keyboard something
> like CXS, but MS keyboards aren't completely compatible with the keystroke
> order required to type CXS.
>
> Firstly, if I were to make an installable Windows IPA keyboard layout
> based on CXS, which of you would be interested in a copy, if any?
[YA] Yes, I'd like that.
> Secondly, do you have any suggestions for implementation details?
[YA] See below.
> Thirdly, are there any other requests for keyboard layouts? Basically, I
> can assign any Unicode character to any key on the keyboard, using Shift
> and AltGr appropriately, with "proper" Caps Lock operation (i.e. capital
> "plain" and AltGr letters, but non capital numbers, symbols and so on).
> I'm thinking about adjusting the US International keyboard ...
[YA] This was my thought. I use that layout exclusively
at present. It conveniently provides all the usual
characters needed for Spanish, French and German
(but does it have the sz ligature? I haven't found
it). The downside is some concomitant inconvenience
for use in English: it reserves the right Alt key for
non-English characters such as ¿ and ¡ used in the
traditional Spanish orthography; also ' and " need
some other character - even space - pressed after
them in order to appear, as they become exclusively
combining characters.
> ...to add wynn,
> yogh, and a few others as AltGr characters, ...
[YA] AltGr?
> ... as well as replacing the
> acutes with macrons, ...
[YA] macrons would be good!
> ... and implementing the ae ligature properly (including
> macron). I might try a keyboard for all those funky characters on Latin
> Extended D, if I can figure out how.
Henrik Theiling replied:
> I think Carsten Becker has done this, see here:
>
>
http://listserv.brown.edu/archives/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0506c&L=conlang&F=&S=&P=
12777
>
> For Win2000/XP. I haven't tried it myself (I'm under Linux).
[YA] I'll try this.
And Paul Bennett came back with:
> Interesting. If Carsten's willing, maybe I could discuss with him on list
> (or off list if you prefer) exactly what he did and how he did it. Maybe
> it can throw some ideas into the open that other people could be inspired
> by, or build on.
[YA] Collaborations can often be fruitful!
Witnessthe exceedingly fast development
of Larry Sulky's Elomi language of late,
caused by the willingness of several people
to pitch in and advance the project.
> I don't suppose a Thagojian layout is of even passing interest to anyone
> else, ...
[YA] Of course it could be, assuming that one
knows enough of Thaojian to write it! Where
can one find Thagojian described?
> ... but I'm open to other suggestions of things that might be of
> interest to the list. One passing thought was a Japanese keyboard that
> allows you to type romaji and recieve katakana, instead of using the IME,
> which IMO is too complex for a casual user.
[YA] Sounds like an extremely useful tool for those
who need to compose katakana.
Regards,
Yahya
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