Re: Loadable keyboards

[stehlik@cas3.zlin.vutbr.cz (Petr Stehlik)]

On Sun, 21 Jun 1998 08:05:56 -0400, Martin-Eric Racine wrote:

MR>This makes it MUCH easier to remap keyboards, contrary to the KBD
MR>format, where you always have to guess that greek Theta will result
MR>in "e circumflex" because it's ascii 233.

:-O why to guess? Before remapping keyboard you have to remap your font,
so greek Theta gets replaced with "E circ" and then you can easily edit
it in any/Clocky keyboard editor.

This is very surprising for me - it's not usual to replace system font
in other countries? I must admit I have no greek or other symbols in my
system font - there are 30 Czech characters, about 20 semigraphics
symbols and the rest, which is not used anywhere.

If it's not so common to replace system font, I could easily add an
option into Clocky or JCLKTools for loading system font. But I thought
everybody used NVDI or NOVA-VDI for that.

MR>simple enough to use, even on this US keyboard.  When I code or mail
MR>Atari stuff (80% of the time), I can access every keys very quickly,
MR>but when I do private mail in french or finnish (the remaining 20%),
MR>I use Alt-key combinations.

You may try to switch to another keymap when writting private mails -
it's perhaps even easier to omit the Alt key and type french or finnish
chars directly.

MR>Deadkeys disrupt normal keyboard operation and should be avoided at
MR>all costs, IMHO.

as you wish.

Petr
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