[XeTeX] Old Persian

[Jonathan Kew]

On 11 Sep 2004, at 3:01 pm, Yves Codet wrote:

>
> Le 11 sept. 04, à 12:39, Jonathan Kew a écrit :
>
>>
>> I wouldn't recommend KeyLayoutMaker for this job--first, because it 
>> doesn't currently support sequence output or non-Plane 0 characters 
>> (sorry; that wouldn't be a particularly difficult enhancement, 
>> though); and second, because its focus is on layouts with large 
>> numbers of dead-key sequences, such as the Ethiopic or Cree examples. 
>> So I think it will generate a dead-key state for every keystroke 
>> that's used in the input, even though in this case they're 
>> unnecessary.
>
> Hello Jonathan.
>
> My example was not good. Cypriot syllabary has five single vowels but 
> the rest is a series of syllables: ka, ke, ki, ko, ku... So it would 
> be more natural to input them as you did for Cree, rather than 
> associate them with arbitrary keys. Otherwise Ukelele is indeed a nice 
> tool and I used it for ancient Greek and Sanskrit; existing key 
> layouts were not very handy with an AZERTY keyboard (peculiarity has 
> its drawbacks).
>

OK; sorry about that. I'm not familiar with Cypriot and I didn't look 
it up.

I've posted an updated version of the KeyLayoutMaker script that I 
think should handle supplementary-plane characters. (I've included a 
Cypriot.keystrokes file in the archive, but I haven't really tested the 
resulting keylayout file.) See:

	http://scripts.sil.org/keylayoutmaker

Please let me know if this works correctly for you; I consider it 
something of a "quick hack", but hope it can be useful.

Jonathan