scim and transliteration

[François Patte]

Bonjour,

I would like to know if there is an input method in scim which could
provide roman transliteration letters: I need vowel with macron,
consonnant with upper and underdot etc.

I have found "latin pre" and "latin post" virtual keyboard but they do
not provide all composed letters I need. Is it possible to add some
composed letters?

There is also an "unicode" and "utf-8" keyboard: is there a
configuration method of scim which could allow to define keyboard short
cuts giving the letter corresponding to a code; for example, I define
"Alt a" short cut with u+0101 and get a lowercase a-macron, "Alt A" will
give uppercase a macron, and so on.

Thank you for attention and (I hope) answer.

[Tony Nelson]

At 11:21 AM +0200 6/11/06, François Patte wrote:
> Bonjour,
>
> I would like to know if there is an input method in scim which could
> provide roman transliteration letters: I need vowel with macron,
> consonnant with upper and underdot etc.

...

I don't know about SCIM, but pressing my Compose key (set to Menu in System
-> Preferences -> Keyboard -> Layout Options -> Compose Key position) and
then a suitable stand-in for the desired accent sometimes sets up a dead
key that puts the accent on the next character typed.  For a macron its
Compose-- (Compose-Dash), for a breve its Compose-< (Compose-Less Than).
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[Jens-Ulrik Petersen]

[responding to an old posting in June just for the record since I 
believe this is a common question]

François Patte wrote:
> I have found "latin pre" and "latin post" virtual keyboard but they do
> not provide all composed letters I need. Is it possible to add some
> composed letters?

Yes, you can do that by modifying or probably better making a new map 
based on those files.
> There is also an "unicode" and "utf-8" keyboard: is there a
> configuration method of scim which could allow to define keyboard short
> cuts giving the letter corresponding to a code; for example, I define
> "Alt a" short cut with u+0101 and get a lowercase a-macron, "Alt A" will
> give uppercase a macron, and so on.

No GUI available for that yet, but again you can define the binding in a 
m17n input map file as above.

Jens