On Tuesday, June 21, 2016 at 7:27:00 PM UTC+5:30, Rustom Mody wrote: > > <URL: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Keyboard_configuration_i > > n_Xorg> -- no good
You probably want this: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/X_KeyBoard_extension#Editing_the_layout > > So Rustom, how do *you* produce, say, Hebrew or Spanish text, or your > > favorite math symbols? > > I wish I could say I have a good answer -- ATM dont > However some ½-assed ones: > > > Emacs: > set-input-method (C-x RET C-\) greek > And then typing > abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz > gives > αβψδεφγηιξκλμνοπ;ρστθωςχυζ > [yeah that ; on q is curious] > > Spanish?? No idea > But there seems to be a spanish input method that > has these éóñá¿ > > Ive typed Hindi/Marathi/Tamil/Sanskrit/Gujarati and helped others with Bengali > using devanagari-itrans/gujarati-itrans/tamil-itrans/bengali-itrans input > methods. There are also the corresponding -inscript methods for those that > type these fluently -- I am not one of those. > > I have some 15-20 lines of elisp that makes these itrans uses easier (for me) ... etc A couple of people wrote me off list thanking me for emacs-unicode knowhow <Heh!> So remembered that there is one method -- yes clunky -- that I use most -- forgot to mention -- C-x 8 RET ie insert-char¹ Which takes the name (or hex) of the unicode char. Nice thing is there is some amount of Tab-*-completion available which makes it possible to fish around for chars after knowing/remembering part of the name So with ↹ showing TAB² Superscr↹ expands to SUPERSCRIPT One more ↹ gives ====================== Click on a completion to select it. In this buffer, type RET to select the completion near point. Possible completions are: SUPERSCRIPT CLOSING PARENTHESIS SUPERSCRIPT DIGIT EIGHT SUPERSCRIPT DIGIT FIVE SUPERSCRIPT DIGIT FOUR SUPERSCRIPT DIGIT NINE SUPERSCRIPT DIGIT ONE SUPERSCRIPT DIGIT SEVEN SUPERSCRIPT DIGIT SIX SUPERSCRIPT DIGIT THREE SUPERSCRIPT DIGIT TWO SUPERSCRIPT DIGIT ZERO SUPERSCRIPT EIGHT SUPERSCRIPT EQUALS SIGN SUPERSCRIPT FIVE SUPERSCRIPT FOUR SUPERSCRIPT HYPHEN-MINUS SUPERSCRIPT LATIN SMALL LETTER I SUPERSCRIPT LATIN SMALL LETTER N SUPERSCRIPT LEFT PARENTHESIS SUPERSCRIPT MINUS SUPERSCRIPT NINE SUPERSCRIPT ONE SUPERSCRIPT OPENING PARENTHESIS SUPERSCRIPT PLUS SIGN SUPERSCRIPT RIGHT PARENTHESIS SUPERSCRIPT SEVEN SUPERSCRIPT SIX SUPERSCRIPT THREE SUPERSCRIPT TWO SUPERSCRIPT ZERO ================================ Adding a d narrows to SUPERSCRIPT DIGIT One more ↹ narrows to Possible completions are: SUPERSCRIPT DIGIT EIGHT SUPERSCRIPT DIGIT FIVE SUPERSCRIPT DIGIT FOUR SUPERSCRIPT DIGIT NINE SUPERSCRIPT DIGIT ONE SUPERSCRIPT DIGIT SEVEN SUPERSCRIPT DIGIT SIX SUPERSCRIPT DIGIT THREE SUPERSCRIPT DIGIT TWO SUPERSCRIPT DIGIT ZERO * can also be used as glob for parts of the name one does not remember So since there are zillions of chars that are some kind of ARROW One can write Right*arrow↹ Still too many Narrow further to Right*Double*Arrow↹ And we get Possible completions are: RIGHT DOUBLE ARROW RIGHT DOUBLE ARROW WITH ROUNDED HEAD RIGHT DOUBLE ARROW WITH STROKE RIGHTWARDS DOUBLE ARROW RIGHTWARDS DOUBLE ARROW FROM BAR RIGHTWARDS DOUBLE ARROW WITH STROKE RIGHTWARDS DOUBLE ARROW WITH VERTICAL STROKE RIGHTWARDS DOUBLE ARROW-TAIL RIGHTWARDS DOUBLE DASH ARROW etc =================== ¹ Steven will be mighty pleased to note that it used to be called ucs-insert For which now the help page gives: "This function is obsolete since 24.3; use `insert-char' instead." ² Courtesy Xah Lee: http://xahlee.info/comp/unicode_computing_symbols.html -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
