Re: Deseret keyboard (was:Re: Special Type Sorts Tray 2001)

[Peter_Constable]

On 10/03/2001 10:48:29 AM John H. Jenkins wrote:

>Getting screen shots of my Deseret keyboard layout is a less than
>trivial task, so I'll try to describe it word-wise...

Except for the Caps Lock behaviour, this layout would be fairly straightforward to setup for Windows using Keyman. A few stored arrays and three rules ought to do it:

+ [K_Q] > deadkey(1)
+ any(RegKey) > index(RegChar,1)
deadkey(1) + any(DK_Key) > index(DK_Char,2)

Keyman 5 doesn't provide a way to make keystrokes sensitive to the caps lock state. But the English QWERTY keyboard is really a distinct keyboard layout, and I would be more inclined to have a Deseret layout be Deseret only and get users to switch to an English QWERTY keyboard (or whatever other keyboard they might want to use) rather than mix two different writing systems into a single layout using the Caps Lock state to switch between them.