[Lexicog] RE: Query re keyboard re-mapping--one more thing

[Suzanne Wash]

Pardon the confusion in my previous post: I meant to
say that there were symbols that the IPA-SIL keyboard
for Mac OS X didn't have, but which I was able to add
using Ukelele. I didn't mean to say that I modified
the DoulosSIL IPA Unicode-encoded font.

So what I downloaded were three things:
(1) Ukelele
(2) the IPA-SIL keyboard for Mac OSX (currently an
alpha release)
(3) the DoulosSIL IPA Unicode-encoded font

For your purposes you probably only need to download
Ukelele.
Hope that helps.

--Suzanne


--- Suzanne Wash <suzannewash at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 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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