Re: APL mode

[David De La Harpe Golden]

On 26/10/13 17:48, Rustom Mody wrote:

> Hey David you're a whiz!

hah, well, thanks. I'm really not when it comes to xkb in particular 
though, I rapidly devolve to trial-and-error.

> Some problems are there:
> in this mode now Alt-x gives me:
> M-⊃ is undefined
> [x maps to ⊃ !!]

Yes, I think you really want -option "grp:switch"

Then (I think) you'll have to hold down RAlt to type the apl character 
(more like a traditional apl keyboard really), but you can still just 
hit M-x with LAlt-x

> More important I cant seem to find a '3rd level' -- note the standard
> apl layout needs upto 4 characters from a key. ie in addition to the
> usual ASCII and upcase ASCII there could be two more

You just selected a pretty basic one I think, try e.g.

setxkbmap -layout "us,apl(sax)" -option "grp:switch"


Then try ralt+letter vs. ralt+shift+letter...

`1234567890-=
qwertyuiop[]
asdfghjkl;'\
zxcvbnm,./

address@hidden&*()_+
QWERTYUIOP{}
ASDFGHJKL:"|
>ZXCVBNM<>?

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