On Mon, 6 Jul 2020 davidson wrote:
On Mon, Jul 06, 2020 at 05:34:59AM +0000, Ajith R wrote:
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I am trying to build a custom layout for my mother tongue Malayalam
(India, Kerala).
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The problem I am trying to tackle:
One of the Malayalam letters, ങ (U+0D19), is used much more commonly
in its geminate form which is composed of three unicode charcters
ങ ്ങ (U+0D19 U+0D4D U+0D19)
which will yield the geminate form
ങ്ങ
So, when I type, I want the ങ to be replaced with ങ്ങ.
^^^^ ^ ^^^^
From the above, it sounds to me that you are saying you would like a
*single* keypress to result in entry of the above geminate form. Do I
understand you correctly?
And if so, are you setting aside the question of how to enter the
simple glyph
ങ (U+0D19)
as an exercise for later?
I am still working towards interpreting (1) what you've done so far,
(2) what exactly you want to achieve, and (3) figuring out how I'd
solve some similar problem.
I lack expertise, but am interested.
The keyboard layout is working fine as far as I can see. It does
yield the correct letters. What doesn't seem to work is the
.XCompose mechanism. Please tell me what I am missing.
Not sure yet. In the meantime, I have one trivial observation to make,
below.
Relevant part of my layout file /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/in
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partial alphanumeric_keys
xkb_symbols "mal_puthuniraA" {
name[Group1] = "Malayalam (Puthu Nira Aarambham)";
key.type="FOUR_LEVEL";
key <AC09> { [ U0D41, U0D19, U0D4E, U0D71] }; // ുMALAYALAM VOWEL
SIGN U, ങ്ങ MALAYALAM LETTER NGA geminate form, ൎMALAYALAM LETTER DOT REPH,
൱ MALAYALAM NUMBER ONE HUNDRED
include "level3(ralt_switch)"
};
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My .XCompose file in my home directory is
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include "%L"
<XK_Shift_L> <U0D19> : "ങ്ങ"
In XCompose(3), under FILE FORMAT, I read:
"Keysyms are specified without the XK_ prefix."
So one change you could try, would be to replace
<XK_Shift_L>
with
<Shift_L>
in the line above.
<U0D19> : "ങ്ങ"
ങ : "ങ്ങ"
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I found the name XK_Shift_L in keysymdef.h file. I tried the unicode
character and its code as well to
identify the keypress. I tried with only one of the lines as well.
XCompose(3) — libx11-doc — Debian buster — Debian Manpages was consulted. I
have tried restarting after
making changes which didn't help.
Am I referring to the keypress correctly? What am I missing?
Thanks for your help,
ajith
XCompose(3) — libx11-doc — Debian buster — Debian
Manpages
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