Re: Modifying Keyboards for Special Characters

David Baron <[email protected]>:
> >There are Hebrew keyboards that either place vowel signs in
> >control/number positions or swap them with numbers and put the
> >numbers in control/number.  The Dagesh word processor used
> >keyboards like this. Aside from charmap type
> 
>  Look what I found: Go to the KDE setup->accessibility->keyboard
>  layouts.  One has four, count 'em, Hebrew layouts there: basic,
>  lyx, phonetic and biblical.
> 
>  The lyx layout has nikud (Hebrew vowel symbols) and trop
>  (cantillation symbols for chanting biblical passages) on certain
>  shifted keys. The biblical layout has them with caps/lock. Now, if
>  I could only see the layout to be able to use and learn it
>  conveniently. (Dagesh has a different layout and has clicked
>  keyboard arrays as aids.)
> 
>  ... and, entered from these layouts rather than imported
>  (Hebrew/bidi RTF is broken in recent OO for quite a while now),
>  they are displayed (almost) correctly in OO!

Man, and I thought the Dvorak keyboard nuts were weird.  :-)


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