Re: Writting Greek in Emacs

[Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com>]

On 23/09/2024 21:02, Thanos Apollo wrote:
> Max Nikulin writes:
>> I am looking
>> into /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/gr polytonic symbols. AltGr+s in Greek
>> layout (<AC02> levels 3 and 4) are used to type "Ϛ ϛ STIGMATA". On the
>> other hand the "us" layout does not have level 3 and 4 symbols for
>> <AC02> "s" qwerty key.
[...]
> but was used _only_ in minuscule manuscripts to save space by combining
> sigma (σ) + tau (τ).  Stigma is not part of the Greek alphabet.

Thanks for explanation. I just had impression that you are going to 
achieve typing experience as close to other applications as possible. 
Perhaps there is really no point in support of some symbols.

>> [AltGr+"{"] and [AltGr+"}"] are defined as dead keys for accents, so
>> it may cause similar issues.
> 
> Thanks to quail there is no need for dead keys or using Meta/Control
> key.

My primary point was not dead keys, but several keys having level3 and 
level4 symbols. Just shift allows to have 2 symbols per key. Another 
modifier is required to get more.

However M-{ and M-} are not best examples, <AD11> and <AD12> have no 4th 
level, just 3rd one. An example for all 4 levels:

     key <AC11> { type[Group1]="FOUR_LEVEL",
                  [ dead_grave, dead_dasia, apostrophe, quotedbl  ] };

On 21/09/2024 05:00, Thanos Apollo wrote:
> "Σ" is the capital version of sigma ("σ") while "ς" is used at the end of
>  a word. In iOS, this is done automatically with one key.

I am curious if this specific feature is provided by input method or by 
the "autoreplace" feature of some applications (similar to "--" → "—")