On Fri, 31 Aug 2001, Alejandros Diamandidis wrote:
> Can someone clarify a point (since I don't know what I'm doing):
>
> In /etc/X11/xkb/symbols/el (and other files there) there are many
> lines like this:
>
> key <AC01> { [], [ Greek_alpha, Greek_ALPHA ] };
>
> What do the "<AC01>" and similar mean?
I'm not sure, but this notation was probably inspired by the keyboard
coordinate notation from ISO 9995, which calls the "A" key "C01" as
it is in row C, column 1 of the keyboard:
[ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/pub/doc/ISO/ISO-9995-terminology]
The grid of a keyboard is defined in ISO/IEC 9995-1. Row A is the row
of the SPACE BAR. Row E is the row where the digit 1 key in the
alphanumeric section of a keyboard (there is also a numeric section on
many keyboards, the numeric keypad) is generally located on QWERTY,
QWERTZ and AZERTY keyboards.
Number coordinates go from left to right, the location of the number 1
in the same alphanumeric section being the relative reference for
coordinate 1. Coordinate 0 refers to the key to the left of the digit
1, if any. As in general keys are arranged slanted from row to row,
the same numbered key on a lower row is in general slightly to the
right of the row above (on QWERTY, QWERTZ and AZERTY keyboards, the
letter E is refered as D03).
Markus
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