From: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
To: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: composed characters question and suggestions for quail-cyrillic-*
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 21:45:46 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87abgpshlx.fsf@jurta.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86lk093nz1.fsf@lifelogs.com> (Ted Zlatanov's message of "Thu, 10 Jul 2008 07:47:30 -0500")
> JL> You could include lowercase versions since they are sometimes used to
> JL> numerate subsections. But please be careful to not create conflicts
> JL> with the existing rules in cyrillic-translit like ("/i" ?і) and ("/I" ?І)
> JL> where І is CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER BYELORUSSIAN-UKRAINIAN I.
>
> How about
>
> ;; Roman numerals, commonly used for months and section/subsection numbers
> ("/RI" ?Ⅰ)
> ("/RII" ?Ⅱ)
> ("/RIII" ?Ⅲ)
> ("/RIV" ?Ⅳ)
> ("/RV" ?Ⅴ)
> ("/RVI" ?Ⅵ)
> ("/RVII" ?Ⅶ)
> ("/RVIII" ?Ⅷ)
> ("/RIX" ?Ⅸ)
> ("/RX" ?Ⅹ)
> ("/RXI" ?Ⅺ)
> ("/RXII" ?Ⅻ)
>
> ("/ri" ?ⅰ)
> ("/rii" ?ⅱ)
> ("/riii" ?ⅲ)
> ("/riv" ?ⅳ)
> ("/rv" ?ⅴ)
> ("/rvi" ?ⅵ)
> ("/rvii" ?ⅶ)
> ("/rviii" ?ⅷ)
> ("/rix" ?ⅸ)
> ("/rx" ?ⅹ)
> ("/rxi" ?ⅺ)
> ("/rxii" ?ⅻ)
This looks better.
> JL> One possible letter for ь is x. I guess it is from jcuken-only
> JL> keyboards, but since it is already taken for x in cyrillic-translit,
> JL> maybe we should replace the rule ("x" ?х) with ("x" ?ь)?
>>>
>>> OK, ditto for X -> Ь. We'll be lynched, surely.
>
> JL> This is why I suggest you to move out most new rules to a separate
> JL> input method, or at least reduce the likelihood of possible annoyance.
>
> Users still need to use the method at some point. Delaying the
> annoyance until then doesn't make it any less of a problem--we're still
> interfering with x/X in the secondary method. I'll make the change in
> the core method for now, and let's see if it's a problem.
Ok. And what about combining characters? Is it possible to insert them
using input-method rules?
> JL> I like your current set of rules, they are easy to remember and input.
> JL> But I have doubts about << and >> since they are inconsistent with
> JL> other sequences with the leading slash.
> ...
> JL> I'm not convinced of the need of creating an exception for these two
> JL> characters. Such exceptions do more harm than good, e.g. the user has
> JL> to remember which quotes require the prefix slash and which don't.
>
> OK, I've made it /<< and />> for those two.
Thanks.
--
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/
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Thread overview: 77+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-13 14:27 composed characters question and suggestions for quail-cyrillic-* Ted Zlatanov
2008-06-13 15:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-06-13 15:56 ` Jason Rumney
2008-06-13 18:09 ` Ted Zlatanov
2008-06-14 9:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-06-14 18:55 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-06-14 19:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-06-18 20:17 ` Ted Zlatanov
2008-06-19 11:45 ` Kenichi Handa
2008-07-02 20:25 ` Ted Zlatanov
2008-07-03 2:29 ` Kenichi Handa
2008-07-03 19:53 ` adding consistent extra symbols to input methods (cyrillic-*, croatian-*, slov*, czech-* etc.) input methods Ted Zlatanov
2008-07-05 12:54 ` Kenichi Handa
2008-07-06 18:40 ` Juri Linkov
2008-07-06 22:54 ` Miles Bader
2008-07-10 0:09 ` Juri Linkov
2008-07-10 0:37 ` Kenichi Handa
2008-07-10 0:52 ` Juri Linkov
2008-07-10 1:44 ` Kenichi Handa
2008-07-10 1:15 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-07-10 0:27 ` Juri Linkov
2008-07-10 1:16 ` Miles Bader
2008-07-10 18:43 ` Juri Linkov
2008-07-11 2:52 ` Miles Bader
2008-07-07 1:57 ` Kenichi Handa
2008-07-07 4:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-07-07 5:25 ` Kenichi Handa
2008-07-07 19:42 ` Ted Zlatanov
2008-07-07 22:05 ` Juri Linkov
2008-07-13 5:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-07-13 5:17 ` Miles Bader
2008-07-13 21:27 ` Juri Linkov
2008-07-14 3:18 ` Miles Bader
2008-07-14 4:43 ` Kenichi Handa
2008-07-14 21:51 ` Juri Linkov
2008-07-15 1:24 ` Kenichi Handa
2008-07-28 13:30 ` multiple input methods (was: adding consistent extra symbols to input methods) Juri Linkov
2008-07-06 18:41 ` composed characters question and suggestions for quail-cyrillic-* Juri Linkov
2008-07-07 20:12 ` Ted Zlatanov
2008-07-07 21:42 ` Juri Linkov
2008-07-08 0:48 ` Kenichi Handa
2008-07-08 10:46 ` Werner LEMBERG
2008-07-08 21:47 ` David Kastrup
2008-07-08 15:37 ` Ted Zlatanov
2008-07-08 17:38 ` James Cloos
2008-07-08 22:54 ` Juri Linkov
2008-07-09 16:02 ` Ted Zlatanov
2008-07-09 18:02 ` James Cloos
2008-07-09 18:49 ` Ted Zlatanov
2008-07-09 19:51 ` Juri Linkov
2008-07-09 18:48 ` Ted Zlatanov
2008-07-09 19:33 ` Juri Linkov
2008-07-09 22:14 ` Ted Zlatanov
2008-07-09 23:52 ` Juri Linkov
2008-07-10 12:47 ` Ted Zlatanov
2008-07-10 18:45 ` Juri Linkov [this message]
2008-07-10 19:10 ` Ted Zlatanov
2008-07-10 19:52 ` Juri Linkov
2008-07-10 20:40 ` Ted Zlatanov
2008-07-10 22:01 ` Juri Linkov
2008-07-12 20:51 ` Juri Linkov
2008-07-14 14:01 ` Ted Zlatanov
2008-07-14 21:47 ` Juri Linkov
2008-07-15 15:06 ` Ted Zlatanov
2008-07-15 20:32 ` Juri Linkov
2008-08-01 21:07 ` Ted Zlatanov
2008-08-05 21:00 ` Ted Zlatanov
2008-08-05 22:05 ` Chong Yidong
2008-07-10 22:09 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-07-10 22:54 ` Juri Linkov
2008-07-11 1:26 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-07-11 2:08 ` Kenichi Handa
2008-07-09 19:21 ` Juri Linkov
2008-07-08 15:49 ` James Cloos
2008-07-08 18:50 ` Ted Zlatanov
2008-07-08 19:50 ` James Cloos
2008-07-08 20:26 ` composed characters question and suggestions for?quail-cyrillic-* Teemu Likonen
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