From: Krishna Birth (krishnabirth@gmail.com)
Date: Sun Sep 19 2010 - 13:37:07 CDT
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 कey by permanently turning the Caps Locक to a Fonts कey.
Could this be done - When this Fonts कey is pressed with a letter कey 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 कey 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
Ā = http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/0100/index.htm
a
ā = http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/101/index.htm
D
Ḍ = http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/1e0c/index.htm
d
ḍ = http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/1e0d/index.htm
H
Ḥ = http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/1e24/index.htm
h
ḥ = http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/1e25/index.htm
I
Ī = http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/12a/index.htm
i
ī = http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/12b/index.htm
L
Ḷ = http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/1e36/index.htm
l
ḷ = http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/1e37/index.htm
L
L̐ = http://pastehtml.com/view/1az9crq.html - http://bit.ly/doq30H
l
l̐ = http://pastehtml.com/view/1az92sb.html - http://bit.ly/chipOw
M
Ṁ ̇= http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/1e40/index.htm
m
ṁ = http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/1e41/index.htm
N
Ñ = http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/d1/index.htm
n
ñ = http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/f1/index.htm
N
Ṇ = http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/1e46/index.htm
n
ṇ = http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/1e47/index.htm
N
Ṅ = http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/1e44/index.htm
n
ṅ = http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/1e45/index.htm
R
Ṛ = http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/1e5a/index.htm
r
ṛ = http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/1e5b/index.htm
R
Ṝ = http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/1e5c/index.htm
r
ṝ = http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/1e5d/index.htm
S
Ṣ = http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/1e62/index.htm
s
ṣ = http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/1e63/index.htm
S
Ś = http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/15a/index.htm
s
ś = http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/15b/index.htm
T
Ṭ = http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/1e6c/index.htm
t
ṭ = http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/1e6d/index.htm
U
Ū = http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/016a/index.htm
u
ū = 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 Locक into a Fonts कey that can allow up to 7
diacritics variations using this toggle approach:
Fonts कey press + letter कey tap once = diacritic letter 1st variation
(sign/case)
Fonts कey press + letter कey tap twice = diacritic letter 2nd variation
(sign/case)
Fonts कey press + letter कey tap thrice = diacritic letter 3rd variation
(sign/case)
Fonts कey press + letter कey tap four times = diacritic letter 4th
variation (sign/case)
Fonts कey press + letter कey tap five times = diacritic letter 5th variation
(sign/case)
Fonts कey press + letter कey tap six times = diacritic letter 6th variation
(sign/case)
Fonts कey press + letter कey tap seven times = diacritic letter 7th
variation (sign/case)
The above does not require the case कey (arrow upwards) to be used because
the above has both lower and upper letters.
If you feel that 'case कey' 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 कey press + letter
कey tap for lower case letters, and
- other 50 percent variation of the above toggle Fonts कey press + letter
कey tap + caps कey 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 कeys to one कey be possible?
Features to consider for the Fonts कey development:
1. Toggle other कeyboard mapped layouts for example, languages and
diacritics.
2. Access other fonts through toggling (Fonts कey + another कey) 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 कey +
another कey) without needing to go to application's micro layer.
It would be nice to have you on board and get these things done.
Best,
Meeकu
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