Re: [emacs-bidi] Hebrew LyX input method for a US English Dvorak keyboard layout

[Amit Ramon]

Kenichi Handa <address@hidden> [2010-06-29 11:40 +0900]:

> In article <address@hidden>, Amit Ramon <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > Bottom line - you don't need to write a new input method in order to
> > support a non-standard keyboard layout - all you have to do is tell
> > Emacs about it.
>
> Right, But, for that, Emacs have to know suffiecient number
> of layouts.  Currently, it knows only about:
>   standard (similar to VT100), sun-type3, atari-german,
>   pc102-de, jp106, pkc105-uk
>
> I'm going to add dvorak soon, but, if there's a way to
> generate such database (semi-)automatically (perhaps from
> XKB database), that's very helpful.

If I may, I would suggest that you call the dvorak layout you plan
to add 'us-dvorak' - this is actually what it is. People may create
layouts for other languages that are also based on the "dvorak
concept" and call them something-dvorak.

As for generating a quail-layout-description from the xkb database,
technically it is, of course, possible, but on how many different
layouts are we talking about? If there are not so many, maybe it would
be simpler to do it manually. The xkb files seem complex to parse.

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> Kenichi Handa
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