[Lexicog] RE: Query re keyboard re-mapping

[Suzanne Wash]

Dear Conor McDonough Quinn,

I, too, use Panther. I had the same problem as you and
finally solved it by downloading the DoulosSIL
IPA/Americanist Unicode-encoded font for the Mac.
There were some symbols it didn't have but which I
needed, and I found it very easy to modify the SIL
keyboard through Ukelele. Ukelele is a
freely-downloadable keyboarding program that is
available from the SIL computing website.

You can create an entirely new keyboard from scratch
using Ukelele and the Mac's keyboard palette, which is
what I used when I modified my the SIL keyboard to
make it better suited for my needs. With Ukelele you
can use practically any keystroke combinations you
want. It's fabulous.

Here is the URL for Ukelele:

http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&item_id=ukelele

And here is the URL for the DoulosSIL Unicode-encoded
IPA/Americanist font if you don't have it already (it
is an alpha version):

http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&item_id=ipa-sil_keyboard

By the way, let me say thanks to all you SIL folks for
the terrific programs and expertise you so generously
make available. It is all very gratefully appreciated.
Thank you so much.


--Suzanne Wash


--- Conor McDonough Quinn <quinn at fas.harvard.edu>
wrote:

> 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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