Hi Andrew It may be possible with Keyman. I once even wrote a set of MS Word macros that did the same thing (let users type in Romanized Tibetan and output Tibetan characters) - however it stopped working when Microsoft switched from Word Basic to VBA. :-(
At least Keyman hides all the messy (and poorly documented) details of Windows system hooks which is what you have to use if you want to make a stand-alone utility (did that once too). If Keyman can call external libraries ~ that's interesting. It is certainly *far* more sophisticated and flexible than MSKLC and I shouldn't have lumped the two together. - Chris On 18/03/2014, Andrew Cunningham <[email protected]> wrote: > Chris, > > Keyman is capable of doing that and a lot more, but few keyboard layout > developers use it to its full potential. > > As an example, I was asked by Harari teachers here in Melbourne to develop > a set of three keyboard layouts for them and their students. > The three keyboards were for three different orthographies in the following > scripts: > 1) Latin > 2) Ethiopic > 3) Arabic > > They wanted all three layouts to work identically, using the keystrokes > used on the Latin keyboard. > > The Ethiopic and Arabic keyboard layouts required extensive remapping of > key sequences to output. > > If I was a programmer I could have done something more elegant by building > an external library Keyman could call but as it is we could do a lot inside > the Keyman keyboard layout itself. > > For Myanmar script keyboard layouts we allow visual input for the e-vowel > sign and medial Ra, with the layout handling reordering. > > One of the Latin layouts I use, supports combining diacritics and reorders > sequences of diacritics to their canonical order regardless of order of > input. Assuming a maximum of one diacritic below and two diacrtics above > base character. > Analysis and creativity can produce some very effective Keyman layouts. > > Andrew > On 18/03/2014 7:23 PM, "Christopher Fynn" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> MSKLC and KeyMan are fairly crude ways of creating input methods >> For what you want to - you probably need a memory resident program >> that traps the Latin input from the keyboard, processes the >> (transliterated) input strings converting them into unicode Sinhala >> strings, and then injects these back into the input queue in place of >> the Latin characters. >> There are a couple of utilities that do this for typing >> transliterated/romanised Tibetan in Windows and getting Tibetan >> Unicode output. >> http://tise.mokhin.org/ >> http://www.thubtenrigzin.fr/denjongtibtype/en.html >> But I think both of these were written in C as they have to do a lot >> of processing which is far beyond what can be accomplished with MSKLC >> and even KeyMan >> - C _______________________________________________ Unicode mailing list [email protected] http://unicode.org/mailman/listinfo/unicode
