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- Thu Oct 01, 2015 1:47 pm
- Forum: General Font Discussions
- Topic: Creating a Tirhuta Keyboard Layout
- Replies: 51
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Re: How to create Tirhuta (Maithili) Keyboard layout
I suggest splitting the project into three stages. 1 Basic layout, facilitating font testing. 2 Complete layout for Tirhuta. 3 Bilingual layout, including Tirhuta and English. Steps one and two need to really be tackled at the same time for languages using complex scripts. And step 3 really isn't n...
- Wed Sep 30, 2015 9:01 pm
- Forum: General Font Discussions
- Topic: Creating a Tirhuta Keyboard Layout
- Replies: 51
- Views: 65850
Creating a Tirhuta Keyboard Layout
Richard, As you ndicate xkb is tricky and isn't the easiest framework to deal with. KMFL and Ekata use Keyman 6 source files as indicated. MSCLC and OSX's .keylayout files (alng with xkb) havesevere limitations but are useful for simpler layouts. My prefrrence, for script under discussion, is develo...
- Wed Sep 30, 2015 12:16 pm
- Forum: General Font Discussions
- Topic: Creating a Tirhuta Keyboard Layout
- Replies: 51
- Views: 65850
Creating a Tirhuta Keyboard Layout
I have just read through the messages, when working on keyboard layouts for many different languages, I have always found that it is necessary to first work out requirements for a new keyboard layout, before choosing an input framework for which to develop the keyboard layout. Considerations include...