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Updated Latin keyboard and new Thryomanes fonts

From:Herman Miller <hmiller@...>
Date:Tuesday, September 16, 2003, 1:04
I noticed that my Latin keyboard for Keyman 6.0 was missing most of the
Latin Extended Additional characters, so I went ahead and added them.

ftp://ftp.io.com/pub/usr/hmiller/lang/Latin.kmx

Special keys for the Latin keyboard (hold Right Alt key and press the key)
~ Tilde
` Grave accent (`` double grave)
^ Circumflex accent
( Breve below
) Horn
- Macron
_ Line below
+ Add stroke(s) through character
= Ligatures & special characters
q Tail
t Turn character 180 degrees
u Breve
o Ring (oo ring below)
h Hook (upper)
l Hook (lower)
; Dot above
: Umlaut/dieresis
' Acute accent ('' double acute)
Z Capital Zhuang tone letters
z Lower case Zhuang tone letters
x Circumflex below
c Ogonek
v Caron
b Top bar
n Inverted breve
m Tilde below
, Cedilla (,, comma below)
. Dot below (.. dieresis below)
/ Slash through character
? Vietnamese hook

I noticed as I was adding the new characters to the keyboard layout that
two of the pairs of letters in the Latin Extended Additional range were in
the wrong order in the Thryomanes font! The "u with tilde and acute"
characters were swapped with the "u with circumflex below" characters. I
had originally planned on doing some more tweaking on the font and adding
some new Unicode 4.0 characters before releasing version 1.2, but I figure
it's good enough for now, so I made the correction and uploaded the new
font to my FTP site.

ftp://ftp.io.com/pub/usr/hmiller/fonts/Thryomanes12.zip

The biggest improvement from version 1.1 is the addition of characters to
the Greek Extended section, which was incomplete. If you use lots of Greek
characters with diacritics, and you have a Windows 2000/XP system, you
might find this keyboard useful:

ftp://ftp.io.com/pub/usr/hmiller/lang/PolyGreek.kmx

Documentation for the Greek keyboard:
alpha beta gamma delta epsilon zeta eta   theta iota kappa lambda mu
A a   B b  G g   D d   E e     Z z  Eh eh Th th I i  K k   L l    M m

nu  xi  omicron pi  rho sigma tau upsilon phi   chi   psi   omega
N n X x O o     P p R r S s c T t U u     Ph ph Kh kh Ps ps Oh oh

diacritics (with Right Alt key)
i   iota subscript (ypogegrammeni)
'   acute (oxia)
`   grave (varia)
/   tonos
~ ^ circumflex (perispomeni)
:   dieresis (dialytika)
(   dasia
)   psili
-   macron
u   breve (vrachy)

symbols
'   U+0374 GREEK NUMERAL SIGN
"   U+0375 GREEK LOWER NUMERAL SIGN
?   U+037E GREEK QUESTION MARK
;   U+0387 GREEK ANO TELEIA
&   U+03D7 GREEK KAI SYMBOL

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