Re: [Indlinux-group] Re: devRomu keymap in detail

[Guntupalli K. <kar...@in...>]

On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 14:34:07 -0400
Noah Levitt <nl...@co...> wrote:

> On Sat, Aug 23, 2003 at 19:42:42 +0530, Guntupalli Karunakar wrote:
> > 
> > > Working on porting the keyman devromu keymap to linux.
> > > 
> >  Havent used devromu - any link to it?
> 
> I don't have a link, unfortunately. I'm not sure if it's
> available on the web. I have the source code, but I don't
> know what the license is, so I probably shouldn't send it to
> the list. Note that it's for the keyman program, which is
> windows only. 

maybe you could mail me offlist.
 
<snip>
> > these are combinations like
> >   TA + HALANT + RA
> >   RA + HALANT
> >   JA + HALANT + NYA etc.
> 
> Why can't this be done with xkb?
> 
> You can map a single keystroke to multiple characters using
> the Compose file.
> 
 hmm, i think that only  allows you to have   
 char + char -> another char
or key + key -> char
 thats what man keymaps says, though function keys can have strings
associated with them.
 whats needed is 
 key -> char char char.

Regards,
Karunakar

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