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(∘) ∷ ∀ α β γ. (β → γ) → (α → β) → (α → γ)
g ∘ f = \x → g (f x)

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k1234567890y wrote: ↑Tue Jul 02, 2019 2:39 am nice (:

maybe you can also aim at peoples who want to revive dying or lost language, not just conlangers I guess.

also is it possible to type non-Latin characters with this?

• Conkey supports only Latin scripts (not including the IPA). Characters from other scripts should only be added if they have been used at some point in a Latin-based script.

bradrn wrote: ↑Tue Jul 02, 2019 3:15 am From the README:

• Conkey supports only Latin scripts (not including the IPA).

cedh wrote: ↑Tue Jul 02, 2019 4:43 am

bradrn wrote: ↑Tue Jul 02, 2019 3:15 am From the README:

• Conkey supports only Latin scripts (not including the IPA).

If it's aimed at conlangers, why is the IPA not included? That seems like a strange design decision to me...

(In my own custom keyboard layout, I am using the Caps Lock key to switch from Latin mode to IPA mode, with the IPA mode layout roughly based on X-SAMPA.)

cedh wrote: ↑Tue Jul 02, 2019 4:43 am If it's aimed at conlangers, why is the IPA not included? That seems like a strange design decision to me...

(In my own custom keyboard layout, I am using the Caps Lock key to switch from Latin mode to IPA mode, with the IPA mode layout roughly based on X-SAMPA.)

akam chinjir wrote: ↑Tue Jul 02, 2019 4:46 am

• Conkey supports only Latin scripts (not including the IPA).

I feel sure that was supposed to mean "the IPA is the only non-Latin script that's supported."

I wonder how many such things there are amongst all of us. (I've got a gradually expanding descendent of ipa-praat.el for use within emacs.)

mèþru wrote: ↑Tue Jul 02, 2019 3:06 pm There should be an equivalent Cyrillic keyboard
I'm tired of having to use special characters to type in all my obscure Cyrillic letters or to combine them with (additional) diacritics

• Add chevron symbols ⟨ and ⟩.
• Add more superscripts: ᴬᴮᴰᴱᴳᴴᴵᴶᴷᴸᴹᴺᴼᴾᴿᵀᵁⱽᵂᵃᵇᶜᵈᵉᶠᵍʰⁱʲᵏˡᵐⁿᵒᵖʳˢᵗᵘᵛʷˣʸᶻ¹²³⁴⁵⁶⁷⁸⁹⁰⁺⁻.
• Add ∅ symbol for the null set.
• Fix issues with the dead keys for superscripts, arrows, Haskell, interrobang and blackboard bold.

Xwtek wrote: ↑Sat Nov 23, 2019 4:12 am Can anyone port it to Linux?

mèþru wrote: ↑Tue Jul 02, 2019 3:06 pm There should be an equivalent Cyrillic keyboard
I'm tired of having to use special characters to type in all my obscure Cyrillic letters or to combine them with (additional) diacritics

bradrn wrote: ↑Sat Nov 23, 2019 4:32 am

Xwtek wrote: ↑Sat Nov 23, 2019 4:12 am Can anyone port it to Linux?

On the other hand, some preliminary research seems to suggest that a Linux keyboard layout is just a text file,

    key <AD01> { [ q, U0252, U0291, U02A5 ] };
    key <AD02> { [ w, U026F, U02B7, U0270 ] };
    key <AD03> { [ e, U025B, U0259, U025C ] };
    key <AD04> { [ r, U0280, U0279, U027D ] };
    key <AD05> { [ t, U03B8, U02A7, U0288 ] };
    key <AD06> { [ y, U028F, U0264        ] };
    key <AD07> { [ u, U028A, U0289, U1D7F ] };
    key <AD08> { [ i, U026A, U0268        ] };
    key <AD09> { [ o, U0254, U00F8, U0153 ] };
    key <AD10> { [ p, U028B               ] };

    key <AC01> { [ a, U0251, U00E6, U0251 ] };
    key <AC02> { [ s, U0283, U02A6, U0282 ] };
    key <AC03> { [ d, U00F0, U02A4, U0256 ] };
    key <AC04> { [ f, U0278, U025F        ] };
    key <AC05> { [ g, U0263, U02E0, U0262 ] };
    key <AC06> { [ h, U0266, U02B0, U0265 ] };
    key <AC07> { [ j, U029D, U02B2        ] };
    key <AC08> { [ k, U026C               ] };
    key <AC09> { [ l, U029F, U028E, U026D ] };
    key <AC10> { [ semicolon, U02D0 ] };
    key <AC11> { [apostrophe, U0259, dead_circumflex, dead_parrot] };

    key <AB01> { [ z, U0292, U02A3, U0290 ] };
    key <AB02> { [ x, U03C7, U0281        ] };
    key <AB03> { [ c, U00E7, U0255, U02A8 ] };
    key <AB04> { [ v, U028C               ] };
    key <AB05> { [ b, U03B2               ] };
    key <AB06> { [ n, U014B, U0272, U0273 ] };
    key <AB07> { [ m, U0271, U0274        ] };
    key <AB10> { [ slash, U0294 ] };

alice wrote: ↑Sat Nov 23, 2019 10:50 am All you have to do is copy one of the files in /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/ and edit it appropriately. Here's one I knocked up earlier:

Ser wrote: ↑Sat Nov 23, 2019 9:23 am Do MSKLC layouts work on Windows 10? I remember hearing something about MSKLC keyboards failing to install or work properly in the new OS, and Microsoft being uninterested in updating MSKLC to get them to work.

And yeah, it should be fairly easy to translate Conkey to a Linux keyboard layout file.

alice wrote: ↑Sat Nov 23, 2019 10:50 am

bradrn wrote: ↑Sat Nov 23, 2019 4:32 am

Xwtek wrote: ↑Sat Nov 23, 2019 4:12 am Can anyone port it to Linux?

On the other hand, some preliminary research seems to suggest that a Linux keyboard layout is just a text file,

All you have to do is copy one of the files in /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/ and edit it appropriately.

Richard W wrote: ↑Sat Nov 23, 2019 2:33 pmIf only! AltGr and dead keys don't mix well on Linux.

Richard W wrote: ↑Sat Nov 23, 2019 2:33 pmI work with lists of special sequences of characters to input a character - that transfers easily between emacs and M17n. I don't see any advantage with actual dead keys, and they are a problem with longer sequences, such as one would naturally use for big* character sets, like Cuneiform or Middle Egyptian. (Middle Egyptian is working nicely on Andrew Glass's laptop, but as of last month had yet to be published to Windows 10. He apparently felt that Unicode should handle real Egyptian - his demonstration goes right to left, the default for real Egyptian.) Micha Kaplan reported a mechanism for using string to character lists for post-MSKLC Windows, and I will have to look that up to port back to MSKLC.

1. Define the keyboard layout in /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/<keyboard-filename>.
2. Add the following in /usr/share/X11/xkb/evdev.xml:

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          <layout>
            <configItem>
              <name>keyboard-filename</name>
              <shortDescription>Description 1</shortDescription>
              <description>Description 2</description>
              <languageList>
                 <iso639Id>art</iso639Id>
              </languageList>
            </configItem>
            <variantList/>
          </layout>
   

   It must be added within the <layoutList> section.
3. Run sudo dpkg-reconfigure xkb-data.
4. Log out then back in. The new keyboard should now be available.

bradrn wrote: ↑Sat Nov 23, 2019 9:11 pm Does anyone have any idea how to get dead keys in a Linux keyboard layout? As mentioned above, I’ve figured out the basics, but there doesn’t seem to be any documentation on how to make dead keys. All I know so far is that one can use dead_acute, dead_grave etc., but I need a little bit more control if I want to port Conkey over.