emulating keyboards with more keys

All, Occasionally I run into the problem that I would like to use a keyboard layout for a 102/105-key keyboard (as used in Canada, the UK, Germany, and many other locales) or a 106/109-key keyboard (as used in (?)only Japan) on a 101/104-key keyboard (from the US but also used elsewhere). (F

Re: emulating keyboards with more keys

I’m not sure, but this may be of interest to you: http://www.europatastatur.de/ Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Andreas Stötzner. Am 11.01.2013 um 09:40 schrieb Stephan Stiller: > All, > > Occasionally I run into the problem that I would like to use a keyboard > layout for a 102/1

Re: emulating keyboards with more keys

Correction: > Canadian French keyb[oa]rd layout (this is the one that lets you directly > type the most letters among those used for the French language) I need to take this back. I first didn't find the dead key for ˊ, but it's not needed anyways there. The Canadian Multilingual Standard is bett

Re: emulating keyboards with more keys

I regularly switch soft keyboard layouts and find it does not cause me any inconvenience。Maybe because I am used to it but also it is so easy to do。I regularly switch between US Extended & Chinese or US Extended & Japanese。I have my OSX system setup with the key combination ctrl+space to toggle

Re: help with an unknown character

You are right Alex - but that is of no help too - I just hoped one of the Unicode pandits would recognize the beast right away! The author is no logician - the book is more about dialectics - with lots of Greek philosophical terms only. So I guess the traditional printer had no logical charac

Re: emulating keyboards with more keys

André: If a character in a language that's not native to my keyboard is only directly available via one of the "additional" keys, we need another method. Also it's a matter of being efficient (though it's unclear whether a deadkey scancode mechanism (see below) would actually be faster). Tom: ANSI

Re: help with an unknown character

2013-01-10 23:28, Elbrecht wrote: > elbrecht.com/SW.png [400KB] > > On title of a 1932/33 book on the "Principal of Contradiction" - > a mathematical/logical character in use for book printing??? I'm surprised that nobody pinned this as U+2129 TURNED GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA. —Ben Scarborough

Re: emulating keyboards with more keys

2013/1/11 Stephan Stiller > Correction: > >> Canadian French keyb[oa]rd layout (this is the one that lets you directly >> type the most letters among those used for the French language) > > I need to take this back. I first didn't find the dead key for ˊ, but it's > not needed anyways there. The

Re: help with an unknown character

2013/1/11 Jukka K. Korpela > The page > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/**Contradiction(which > isn’t particularly convincing or otherwise important) refers to the > LaTeX Symbol List > ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/TeX/**CTAN/info/symbols/** > comprehensive/sy

Re: help with an unknown character

You might be interested in this site: http://shapecatcher.com/ A tip: the system seems much more accurate if you draw your character as small as possible. Its best guess is (as Ben Scarborough noted) this one: http://shapecatcher.com/unicode/info/8489 On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 2:28 PM, Elbrecht wr

Re: help with an unknown character

Is there any reference in the book to the cover? This seems possibly what you're looking for: http://shapecatcher.com/unicode/info/8726 On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 3:57 AM, Elbrecht wrote: > You are right Alex - > > but that is of no help too - I just hoped one of the Unicode pandits would > reco

Re: help with an unknown character

Hi Buck - that's just my first guess - no blackslash available the printer replaced with what was available in his set… NO to the best of my knowledge - there is NO reference in the book - there is NO logical symbol at all! There is just this erratic appearance on the titel cover. But NEGATION

Re: emulating keyboards with more keys

Hi Philippe – Thanks, and I agree with most, but one thing: The JIS keyboard has 4/5 more keys than the ISO/ANSI one, not just 1 more. In the bottom row the extra keys are 無変換 (left of space) and 変換 and カタカナ/ひらがな (right of space). I believe to remember that the ISO key between left-shift and "Z"

Re: help with an unknown character

On Fri, 11 Jan 2013 21:51:04 +0100, Elbrecht wrote: that's just my first guess - no blackslash available the printer replaced with what was available in his set… I would be really surprised, if this was the glyph closest to a backslash available. I am no expert on classical typesetting, but

Re: emulating keyboards with more keys

2013/1/11 Stephan Stiller > About the numpad on laptops: For me the annoyance is that I currently have > a laptop where there is *no* numpad that can be Fn-enabled, so I > literally can't use special Alt+ input. > On such laptops, it is then normal to not enable NumLock by default in their BIOS.

Re: emulating keyboards with more keys

In my opinion, most keyboards today include a "Fn" key which is used to offer extra keys, notably on notebooks where keyboards are not infinitely extensible. Those manufacturers are assigning some Fn+Key functions for their own use, but most Fn+Key combinations are not used and should be programmab

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Those are good ideas. (This doesn't solve it for desktop computers, but then the manufacturers of external keyboards clutter their products with superfluous extra junk keys. But such extra keys use extra scancodes; I don't know whether Fn generally has an associated scancode.) -S On Fri, Jan 11

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The Fn key normally does not have a scancode visible to the underlying OS, but it has one in the low levels, caught by the BIOS or by the keyboard driver which just maps a few Fn+Key combinations to translate them into one or more standard keycodes, but filters all other combinations (instead of ex

Re: Q is a Roman numeral?

On Jan 8, 2013 1:08 PM, Frédéric Grosshans wrote: > Roman numerals have always been more complex than the standard (modern) > way we've been taught to, and their use spans several millennia, over > which may variation have occurred. If you look at wiipedia's table for > middle age and Renaissance,