2008/7/5, Lisi Reisz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Saturday 05 July 2008 05:18:25 H.S. wrote: > > > In scim, to toggle between two inputs one just has to do CTRL+SPACE > > combination (other combination can be configured). Much faster than > > moving to the mouse, clicking and coming back to the keyboard for typing. > > :) > > > I still haven't discovered how to enter Japanese characters direct from the > keyboard. But _1_ click of the mouse (on the uim input pad), followed by > another one click for the next character is certainly quicker. (E.g. > click-click-click - 3 clicks - instead of Chi-hi-ro -7 letters input from > the > keyboard.) > > But my granddaughter agrees with you and wants to use the keyboard, so any > pointers would be very welcome. > > > Lisi > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > You didn't say what operating system you are using, but I assume some Linux distro, since I don't think there is a Scim version of anything else (I just checked and found that there actually also is a MacOS version, but I don't know much about Mac anyway so I still presume you are running Linux…).
I use GNU/Linux Ubuntu (8.04 at the moment, but I have used it since 7.04) and I found that the best way for ME was to create my own keyboard map. It wasn't that hard actually. Some editing in two text files and I think I also had to restart the computer or at least logout and then login back again to make it work. However a little too OT to descibe here. Well, at least I used OpenOffice.org Calc to help me create the vital parts of the most important text file, which spared me a lot of typing. The result is, however, that I can now input every character I need by just using the usual character keys in compbination with Shift and AltGr. I also made labels to attach to my keys so I didn't need to memorize every keyboard combination. I can now easily type characters like °π∞⊕⌀æøØÆ×∿…℃℉(c)℗(R)ωΩß☐☒₀₁₂₃₄₅₆₇₈₉⁰¹²³⁴⁵⁶⁷⁸⁹⁽⁾₍₎☺☹☠☏, etc. I even assigned AltGr+[Arrow key] to ←↑↓→⬄⇨ and I can type ↵¶ with the Enter key (if I don't use AltGr at the same time, Enter and the arrow keys works as usually, of course) Yes, this methond wouldn't work well for Japanese or Chinese, since there are maybe too many characters and not enought keys on the keyboard for that, but I don't know, I didn't try that. In Ubuntu (and possibly other distros) you can also define a compose key which makes you able to input some characters, not normally included on the keyboard. I assigned mine to Caps Lock, since that key is useless to me anyway, so for me, [Capslock]/o now means ø on my system. Other combinations: xo → ¤ oc → (c) .. → · ae → æ AE → Æ ss → ß oo → ° %o → ‰ etc etc. Note that the CapsLock key is supposed to be pressed and then released, then input two characters, one by one. There are tables for this on the Internet, just search for it. Here<http://www.hermit.org/Linux/ComposeKeys.html>is one (first hit when searching for "Linux compose key" with Google). Well, maybe still not an OpenOffice.org question, so I guess I'd better stop here.
