On Jan 10, 2009, at 8:37 PM, Walt Mankowski wrote:
On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 07:46:21PM -0800, Joshua Juran wrote:
On Jan 10, 2009, at 8:41 AM, David Cantrell wrote:
On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 04:46:12PM -0800, Michael G Schwern wrote:
Fortunately, OS X comes with the built-in ability to turn Caps Lock
into a
modifier key. Unfortunately they felt the need to bury it under a
button in
the otherwise empty Keyboard preference.
Unfortunately they also forgot to include any way of remapping the
rest
of the keyboard. It would be Really Handy for me to be able to
press
Something-o to get the oe ligature, something-a to get the ae
ligature,
something-t for thorn, something-d for eth and so on.
Why are there even separate characters for ligatures? Isn't this a
display issue? Should a well-kerned 'AV' have its own ligature too?
You can't globally turn "oe" into "Å“". It's ok for words like amoeba
and oevre, but not for shoe or coed or photoelectric.
This problem sounds like it can be solved by throwing a dictionary at
it.
Josh
