Re: adding Lakota keyboard layouts

[Grant Shoshin Shangreaux <grant@churls.world>]

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Robert Pluim writes:

> Youʼre missing a ChangeLog and a NEWS entry. See commit 229c51afbf for
> an example

Thank you for the review! I finally had a chance to sit down with this
again and I'm attaching an updated patch that also includes one input
mode added to the latin-prefix file.

I added the NEWS entry, but I apologize, I wasn't able to determine
which ChangeLog I should be adding to. I tried to format my commit
message as documented in the CONTRIBUTE file. 

>
> Two spaces after '.', here and below
>

Good to know the docstrings still follow two spaces after a period, I
believe I've got them all sorted now

>
> I guess these combine if you use the ? notation, which looks
> terrible. Perhaps a comment to that effect?
>

I added a comment, I'd be glad to know if there was a better way to
insert these combining character literals. This proved to be the best
way I could come up with to keep the input mode simple.

> Also, in the lakota-slo-postfix, you produce eg á, whereas this
> method produces ȧ. Are they intended to represent the same sound? If
> so, could it be confusing to have them represented differently?
>

The White Hat orthography doesn't add diacritics to vowels. I added a
table in the docstring to show the intended use of the combining marks
for the consonants. I hope that makes it a bit clearer.

- Grant


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From 2c5ed933f515d2115f37695e8f1b784e88104127 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Grant Shangreaux <grant@churls.world>
Date: Sun, 23 May 2021 11:28:25 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Add: input modes for Lakota orthographies

The White Hat and Suggested Lakota Orthography are represented here
by three different input modes: A prefix and postfix mode for the SLO
and a postfix mode for the White Hat orthography.
* lisp/leim/quail/latin-post.el: lakota-slo-postfix, lakota-white-hat-postfix
* lisp/leim/quail/latin-pre.el: lakota-slo-prefix
* etc/HELLO: a welcome message in Lakota
---
 etc/HELLO                     |  1 +
 etc/NEWS                      |  7 +++++
 lisp/leim/quail/latin-post.el | 58 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 lisp/leim/quail/latin-pre.el  | 29 ++++++++++++++++++
 4 files changed, 95 insertions(+)

diff --git a/etc/HELLO b/etc/HELLO
index 0cebb2bb7c..577c2828de 100644
--- a/etc/HELLO
+++ b/etc/HELLO
@@ -59,6 +59,7 @@ Italian (italiano)	Ciao / Buon giorno
 Javanese (ꦧꦱꦗꦮꦶ)	console.log("ꦲꦭꦺꦴ");
 Kannada (ಕನ್ನಡ)	ನಮಸ್ಕಾರ
 Khmer (ភាសាខ្មែរ)	ជំរាបសួរ
+Lakota (Lakȟotiyapi)	Taŋyáŋ yahí!
 Lao (ພາສາລາວ)	ສະບາຍດີ / ຂໍໃຫ້ໂຊກດີ
 Malayalam (മലയാളം)	നമസ്കാരം
 Maldivian (ދިވެހި)	އައްސަލާމު ޢަލައިކުމް / ކިހިނެހް؟
diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index da1372baf4..551affe234 100644
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -1214,6 +1214,13 @@ deprecated.  Errors in the Inscript method were corrected.
 *** New input method 'cham'.
 There's also a Cham greeting in "etc/HELLO".
 
+---
+*** New input methods for Lakota language orthographies
+Two orthographies are represented here, the Suggested Lakota Orthography
+and what is known as the White Hat Orthography.  Input methods lakota-slo-prefix,
+lakota-slo-postfix, and lakota-white-hat-postfix have been added.
+There is also a Lakota greeting in "etc/HELLO".
+
 ** Ispell
 
 +++
diff --git a/lisp/leim/quail/latin-post.el b/lisp/leim/quail/latin-post.el
index 10408776a2..8329fff82e 100644
--- a/lisp/leim/quail/latin-post.el
+++ b/lisp/leim/quail/latin-post.el
@@ -1298,6 +1298,64 @@
  ("a__" ["a_"])
  )
 
+;; Input modes of various orthographies for the Lakota language.
+;; I'd like to acknowledge the elders and ancestors who fought
+;; to keep the language and culture alive.
+;; Grant Shangreaux <grant@churls.world> 2021-05-23
+
+(quail-define-package
+ "lakota-white-hat-postfix" "Lakota" "Lak " t
+ "Lakota White Hat orthography input method with postfix modifiers.
+The `f' key produces the nasal ŋ while unused letters `r' and `v' add
+the combining dot above and macron diacritics respectively.  This allows
+production of all the consonants:
+
+cv -> c̄    hr -> ḣ    pv -> p̄    tv -> t̄
+cr -> ċ    kv -> k̄    pr -> ṗ    tr -> ṫ
+gr -> ġ    kr -> k̇    sr -> ṡ    zr -> ż
+
+The glottal stop is produced by repeating the ' character.  This orthography
+does not use stress diacritics on vowels. Mit̄ak̄uyep̄i p̄ilamayayap̄ilo."
+nil t nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil t)
+
+(quail-define-rules
+ ("f" ?ŋ)
+ ("''" ?’)
+ ;; using hex representation as these characters combine with the ? syntax
+ ("r" #x307)                            ; COMBINING DOT ABOVE
+ ("v" #x304))                            ; COMBINING MACRON
+
+
+
+(quail-define-package
+ "lakota-slo-postfix" "Lakota" "SLO " t
+ "Suggested Lakota Orthography input method with postfix modifier.
+To add stress to a vowel, simply type the single quote ' after the vowel.
+The glottal stop is produced by repeating the ' character.  All other
+characters are bound to a single key.  Mitákuyepi philámayayapi ló."
+nil t nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil t)
+
+(quail-define-rules
+ ;; accented vowels
+ ("a'" ?á) ("A'" ?Á)
+ ("e'" ?é) ("E'" ?É)
+ ("i'" ?í) ("I'" ?Í)
+ ("o'" ?ó) ("O'" ?Ó)
+ ("u'" ?ú) ("U'" ?Ú)
+
+ ;; consonants with caron
+ ("c" ?č) ("C" ?Č)
+ ("j" ?ȟ) ("J" ?Ȟ)
+ ("q" ?ǧ) ("Q" ?Ǧ)
+ ("x" ?ž) ("X" ?Ž)
+ ("r" ?š) ("R" ?Š)
+
+ ;; velar nasal n
+ ("f" ?ŋ)
+
+ ;; glottal stop
+ ("''" ?’))
+
 (quail-define-package
  "norwegian-postfix" "Latin-1" "NO<" t
  "Norwegian (Norsk) input method (rule: AE->Æ   OE->Ø   AA->Å   E\\='->É
diff --git a/lisp/leim/quail/latin-pre.el b/lisp/leim/quail/latin-pre.el
index b8b0fabfa8..3b9c942a8c 100644
--- a/lisp/leim/quail/latin-pre.el
+++ b/lisp/leim/quail/latin-pre.el
@@ -1337,4 +1337,33 @@
  ("``"  ["`"])
  )
 
+(quail-define-package
+ "lakota-slo-prefix" "Lakota" "SLO " t
+ "Suggested Lakota Orthography input method with prefix modifier.
+To add stress to a vowel, simply type the single quote ' before the vowel.
+The glottal stop is produced by repeating the ' character.  All other
+characters are bound to a single key.  Mitákuyepi philámayayapi ló."
+nil t nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil t)
+
+(quail-define-rules
+ ;; accented vowels
+ ("'a" ?á) ("'A" ?Á)
+ ("'e" ?é) ("'E" ?É)
+ ("'i" ?í) ("'I" ?Í)
+ ("'o" ?ó) ("'O" ?Ó)
+ ("'u" ?ú) ("'U" ?Ú)
+
+ ;; consonants with caron
+ ("c" ?č) ("C" ?Č)
+ ("j" ?ȟ) ("J" ?Ȟ)
+ ("q" ?ǧ) ("Q" ?Ǧ)
+ ("x" ?ž) ("X" ?Ž)
+ ("r" ?š) ("R" ?Š)
+
+ ;; velar nasal n
+ ("f" ?ŋ)
+
+ ;; glottal stop
+ ("''" ?’))
+
 ;;; latin-pre.el ends here
-- 
2.20.1