Dear colleagues,

in this regard I only want to bring in some aspects of building up and enhancing an individual keyboard layout.

Working on Mac I have set up a layout years ago during my Bachelor studies with Ukelele. During my Master studies, this got enlarged and modified while working with Indo-european languages out of the necessity to display more and more diacritics correctly as well as Unicode-safe. Now, this grown keyboard layout is mainly based on the Combining Diacritical Marks block (U+0300..U+036F) together with the simple letters, keeping it easy and intuitive – for me and according to my writing habits – to create diacritics of almost any kind, also working perfectly in TextEdit, Pages, and most of the time in XeLaTeX. That is the big advantage of building a personal layout. One will also get used to the process of adding glyphs, although at the very beginning it can and highly possibly will be quite time consuming.

The only disadvantage to this system in my view can be, that there are different ways to have e.g. an Unicode-safe ṇ – one as a single-built ṇ U+1E47 (Latin Extended Additional), another as the combined solution n U+006E (Basic Latin) + ̣U+0323 (Combining Diacritical Marks), a third based on a command \d{n} in pdfTeX. Afaik, these three won’t be interpreted as the in fact same sign whilst at first glance looking the same, but this is also a minor issue regarding word search in a document either .pdf or raw. Nevertheless, in my view the combining solution helps creating a broader variety of diacritics.

Best,

Raik Strunz

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>>> James Hartzell via INDOLOGY <indology@list.indology.info> 15.08.19 13.08 Uhr >>>
Thanks Richard, Harry, Malcolm, Robert for your suggestions—I will experiment and if I can solve it I will report back

Cheers
James

> On 15 Aug 2019, at 11:34, Robert Zydenbos via INDOLOGY <indology@list.indology.info> wrote:
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> There is also John Smith's keyboard layout for Windows at http://bombay.indology.info/software/fonts/induni/index.html (however, I have no experience with it myself, being a Mac and Linux user).
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