SCIM Latin-Pre / Latin-Post help

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Does anybody know where I can find a manual for SCIM’s Latin-Pre and/or Latin-Post (t-latn-pre / t-latn-post) input method?

I’ve been trying to figure out how to get characters with accent grave and with cedille (like è and ç), but no success. Oh, and how does one get a German eszett (ß)?

Best,

homoludens

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I don’t know anything about SCIM but, if you are using KDE, go to Keyboard layouts and install the German (QWERTZ) layout. ß is then next to 0 on my keyboard. It’s also alt-gr s on my UK English layout but I assume you want to use other German accents. In which case adding a German keyboard layout gets you them all.

Grave and cedilla are 7 and 9 on the French (AZERTY) keyboard layout. Once you have them installed, it’s easy to flip even when writing English to which you want to add the occasional accent.

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John:

Thanks for the reply. I think I would prefer to use SCIM Latin-Pre because then I wouldn’t have to switch between all sorts of keyboards (and I wouldn’t have to learn the different keys for punctuation on each keyboard … ).

Cheers,

homoludens

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I have just Googled SCIM and it appears that users from all distributions are asking the same question. Have you opened a console and looked for some documentation that may have come with the package?

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John,

thanks for the tip, I didn’t think about checking the documentation that came with SCIM. Doesn’t look like there’s anything on the Latin-Pre/Post transcription mode, though, at least not as far as I can see.

I also used try-and-error to see whether I can find accent grave characters. No success. Either they’re not implemented (which would surprise me, given the fact that I came across all sorts of characters that are by far less commonly used), or there some sort of knack I haven’t discovered yet …

Best,

homoludens

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Well, took me a long time, but I finally found the information I was looking for. For completion, here is the link to an overview over these two input methods, as well as over other SCIM input methods:

The m17n Library

Cheers,

homoludens

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Well, took me a long time, but I finally found the information I was
looking for. For completion, here is the link to an overview over these
two input methods, as well as over other SCIM input methods:

‘The m17n Library’
(http://www.m17n.org/common/m17n-docs-en/m17nDBData.html)

Cheers,

homoludens

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