RFC czech-translit input method

RFC czech-translit input method

[Richard Zidlicky]

Hello,

I have recently submitted this to xemacs-devel and hope some emacs user may 
find it useful as well.

The main motivation was to be able to easilly type czech with eg german keyborads
- on those most of the keys typically used for composing/pre/postfix are only available
shifted or alt-grd. With this input method only the basic character keys are used, 
found inspiration for this in some cyrilic-translit and various iso-postfix packages.

It is available under any kind of GPL license.

Richard


;; enter Czech accented keys by combination of ASCII letters.
;; Works well because the used double letter combinations are very rare
;; - with the exception of "ie" which is frequent in words of foreign origin.
;; To deal with foreign words and names it is essential to have toggle-input-method
;; bound to a very convenient key

(quail-define-package
 "czech-translit" "Czech" "cz-tr" t   ; name, language, title guidance
 "Intuitively transliterated keyboard layout for Czech:
    aa -> á, ee -> é, AA -> Á ...
    cc -> č, rr -> ř , tt -> ť ...
    nj -> ň, dj -> ď
    ie -> ě
    uu -> ú
    uo -> ů
  exceptions and strange cases:
    iee -> ié
    iie -> ie
    eee -> ee
  other
    iii -> i
 "

  nil t     ; translation-keys, forget-last-selection
  t t       ; deterministic,  kbd-translate 
  t nil     ; show-layout, create-decode-map
  nil nil   ; maximum-shortest (non-greedy), overlay-plist
  nil nil   ; update-translation-function, conversion-keys
  t         ; simple
)

(quail-define-rules
 ("aa" ?á)
 ("ee" ?é)
 ("eee" ["ee"])
 ("ii" ?í)
 ("iee" ["ié"])
 ("iie" ["ie"])
 ("iii" ?i)
 ("oo" ?ó)
 ("uu" ?ú)
 ("uo" ?ů)
 ("yy" ?ý)
 ("AA" ?Á)
 ("EE" ?É)
 ("II" ?Í)
 ("III" ?Í)
 ("OO" ?Ó)
 ("UU" ?Ú)
 ("YY" ?Ý)
 ("cc" ?č)
 ("dj" ?ď)
 ("nj" ?ň)
 ("rr" ?ř)
 ("ss" ?š)
 ("tt" ?ť)
 ("zz" ?ž)
 ("CC" ?Č)
 ("DJ" ?Ď)
 ("NJ" ?Ň)
 ("RR" ?Ř)
 ("SS" ?Š)
 ("TT" ?Ť)
 ("ZZ" ?Ž)
 ("IE" ?Ě)
)

Re: RFC czech-translit input method

[Richard Zidlicky]

Hi,

sorry, previous post was missing one rule - ("ie" ?ě)

Richard


;; enter Czech accented keys by combination of ASCII letters.
;; Works well because the used double letter combinations are very rare
;; - with the exception of "ie" which is frequent in words of foreign origin.
;; To deal with foreign words and names it is essential to have toggle-input-method
;; bound to a very convenient key

(quail-define-package
 "czech-translit" "Czech" "cz-tr" t   ; name, language, title guidance
 "Intuitively transliterated keyboard layout for Czech:
    aa -> á, ee -> é, AA -> Á ...
    cc -> č, rr -> ř , tt -> ť ...
    nj -> ň, dj -> ď
    ie -> ě
    uu -> ú
    uo -> ů
  exceptions and strange cases:
    iee -> ié
    iie -> ie
    eee -> ee
  other
    iii -> i
 "

  nil t     ; translation-keys, forget-last-selection
  t t       ; deterministic,  kbd-translate 
  t nil     ; show-layout, create-decode-map
  nil nil   ; maximum-shortest (non-greedy), overlay-plist
  nil nil   ; update-translation-function, conversion-keys
  t         ; simple
)

(quail-define-rules
 ("aa" ?á)
 ("ee" ?é)
 ("eee" ["ee"])
 ("ii" ?í)
 ("ie" ?ě)
 ("iee" ["ié"])
 ("iie" ["ie"])
 ("iii" ?i)
 ("oo" ?ó)
 ("uu" ?ú)
 ("uo" ?ů)
 ("yy" ?ý)
 ("AA" ?Á)
 ("EE" ?É)
 ("II" ?Í)
 ("III" ?Í)
 ("OO" ?Ó)
 ("UU" ?Ú)
 ("YY" ?Ý)
 ("cc" ?č)
 ("dj" ?ď)
 ("nj" ?ň)
 ("rr" ?ř)
 ("ss" ?š)
 ("tt" ?ť)
 ("zz" ?ž)
 ("CC" ?Č)
 ("DJ" ?Ď)
 ("NJ" ?Ň)
 ("RR" ?Ř)
 ("SS" ?Š)
 ("TT" ?Ť)
 ("ZZ" ?Ž)
 ("IE" ?Ě)
)