[sclug] Xmodmap Project - Anyone interested?

[Krishna Birth]

Firstly please note that all k / K letters on this posting are altered to ?
/ ? (spiritual reasons.)

I am sorry to thrust this project to you (mailing list).  I am loo?ing for
advice or if you have the time to construct a ?eyboard mapping.  There seems
to be some problem regarding "if you assign Mode_switch and ISO_Level3_Shift
to different keys, you can assign up to six characters to one key!"
see http://tr.opensuse.org/SDB:Using_the_Extra_Keys_on_the_Keyboard

The diacritics are usually typed with non-diacritic letter.   It would be
nice to have facility to use both in convenient way e.g. toggling with a
Fonts / Scripts ?ey by permanently turning the Caps Loc? to a Fonts /
Scripts ?ey.

Could this be done - When this Fonts / Scripts  ?ey is pressed with a letter
?ey it toggles to diacritic letter 1 or 2 or  3 (depending on how many
diacritics are there connected with a 'target' letter) - this toggling will
need to factor in a 'remain at same spot' and toggle these diacritics
feature.  When the Fonts / Scripts ?ey is released then the cursor would
move to the next base.

Here are the target letters, the diacritics connected with them and the URL
with more info about them:

A
? = http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/0100/index.htm
a
? = http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/101/index.htm

D
D? = http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/1e0c/index.htm
d
d? = http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/1e0d/index.htm

H
H? = http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/1e24/index.htm
h
h? = http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/1e25/index.htm

I
? = http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/12a/index.htm
i
? = http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/12b/index.htm

L
L? = http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/1e36/index.htm
l
l? = http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/1e37/index.htm

L
L? = http://pastehtml.com/view/1az9crq.html - http://bit.ly/doq30H
l
l? = http://pastehtml.com/view/1az92sb.html  - http://bit.ly/chipOw

M
M? ?= http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/1e40/index.htm
m
m? = http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/1e41/index.htm

N
? = http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/d1/index.htm
n
? = http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/f1/index.htm

N
N? = http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/1e46/index.htm
n
n? = http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/1e47/index.htm

N
N? = http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/1e44/index.htm
n
n? = http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/1e45/index.htm

R
R? = http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/1e5a/index.htm
r
r? = http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/1e5b/index.htm

R
R?? = http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/1e5c/index.htm
r
r?? = http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/1e5d/index.htm

S
S? = http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/1e62/index.htm
s
s? = http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/1e63/index.htm

S
? = http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/15a/index.htm
s
? = http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/15b/index.htm

T
T? = http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/1e6c/index.htm
t
t? = http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/1e6d/index.htm

U
? = http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/016a/index.htm
u
? = http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/16b/index.htm


Referring to the above 32 diacritics, in theory a diacritic letter  could
have up to 7 diacritics 'sign' variations per letter:

1.  Macron
2. Dot Below
3. Candrabindu
4. Dot Above
5.  Tilde
6.  Dot Below & Macron
7.  Acute

and 2 diacritics 'case' (lower/upper sizes) variations per letter
- in 'total' up to 14 diacritics variations altogether per letter

In actuality, the maximum letter n/N has 6 diacritics sign/case variations
and a/A only has 2 diacritics sign/case variations.

Thus if you can turn the Caps Loc? into a Fonts / Scripts ?ey that can allow
up to 7 diacritics variations using this toggle approach:

Fonts / Scripts ?ey press + letter ?ey tap once  = diacritic letter 1st
variation (sign/case)

Fonts / Scripts ?ey press + letter ?ey tap twice  = diacritic letter 2nd
variation (sign/case)

Fonts / Scripts ?ey press + letter ?ey tap thrice = diacritic letter 3rd
variation (sign/case)

Fonts / Scripts ?ey press + letter ?ey tap four times  = diacritic letter
4th variation (sign/case)

Fonts / Scripts ?ey press + letter ?ey tap five times = diacritic letter 5th
variation (sign/case)

Fonts / Scripts ?ey press + letter ?ey tap six times = diacritic letter 6th
variation (sign/case)

Fonts / Scripts ?ey press + letter ?ey tap seven times = diacritic letter
7th variation (sign/case)

The above does not require the case ?ey (arrow upwards) to be used because
the above has both lower and upper letters.

If you feel that 'case ?ey' producing upper case letters should be used just
as it is with non-diacritic letters, then fine.  Thus this would mean:

- 50 percent variations of the above toggle with Fonts / Scripts ?ey press +
letter ?ey tap for lower case letters, and

- other 50 percent variation of the above toggle Fonts / Scripts ?ey press +
letter ?ey tap + caps ?ey for upper case letters.

"if you assign Mode_switch and ISO_Level3_Shift to different keys, you can
assign up to six characters to one key!"
see http://tr.opensuse.org/SDB:Using_the_Extra_Keys_on_the_Keyboard
Does this mean it is possible?  Could 7 characters to one ?ey be possible?

Features to consider for the Fonts / Scripts ?ey development:

1. Toggle other ?eyboard mapped layouts for example, languages and
diacritics.
2. Access other fonts through toggling (Fonts / Scripts ?ey + another ?ey)
without needing going every time to the particular application's micro
layer.
3. Design more styles per letter and/or partner with other fonts and thus
more styles on a font and accessing them through toggling (Fonts / Scripts
?ey + another ?ey) without needing to go to application's micro layer.

It would be nice to have some person/s on board and get these things done.


Best,


Mee?u