[Lexicog] RE: Query re keyboard re-mapping

[Conor McDonough Quinn]

Dia dhaoibh, a chairde!

There's been much discussion recently about keyboarding and Unicode.  I'm
working on an OS X.3 (Panther) system and find the Unicode Character
Palette (particularly the Combining Diacritical Marks and the Favorites
option) quite a lovely device to use.

However, it is still slow going to type quickly in the main language I
work with, since it requires manually picking out schwas, alphas,
superscript <w>s (yep, one here too!), and grave, acute, and macrons,
among other things.  I'd like to create a keyboard layout (akin to
those already developed and installed on the equally fun International
input menu) that I could install and use in the same manner that would
map these particular Unicode characters onto the regular keyboard's
keystrokes (our old font-based system suggests a nice mapping, and one
I've been typing in for ten years now).

As near as I can tell, this should not be a particularly complex thing to
do, given that the system is happily Unicode compatible and easily adds
new updates to the International input menu.  That said, I have rooted
around in the Mac system and experimented with this and that and have
still been unsuccessful.  My sense is that there are many on the list who
have substantial experience in such matters (and probably equally many, if
not more, who like me, wish they did)---so whatever suggestions, both
specific to my question and general with regard to Unicode keyboarding
(particularly in OS X.3) will find me very grateful.

Sla/n,
bhur gcara




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