RLM mark in standard Hebrew keyboard layout

[Jonathan Ben Avraham]

Hi Dov,
I'd like to see a vote on this, or maybe just a discussion.
Maybe there is a possibility of adopting this as a second standard.
Anyone else have opinions about this?

  - yba


On Thu, 5 Mar 2009, Dov Grobgeld wrote:

> Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 11:23:37 +0200
> From: Dov Grobgeld <dov.grobgeld at gmail.com>
> To: Jonathan Ben Avraham <yba at tkos.co.il>
> Cc: Baruch Siach <baruch at tkos.co.il>, linux-il. <linux-il at cs.huji.ac.il>
> Subject: Re: RLM mark in standard Hebrew keyboard layout
> 
> After all these years SI1452 still amazes me. Who would want to replace the
> Shift Numeral keys with nikud? In order to write "SHALOM!" (assuming that
> capital characters are hebrew) you would then need to press [Language
> shift][Shift][1][Language Shift] to get the final exclamation mark. Does
> anyone know anyone who is actually doing this?
>
> That's why I suggested the alternative at
>
> http://imagic.weizmann.ac.il/~dov/Hebrew/pango-hebrew.html
>
> The idea is that it makes more sense to press the [Language shift] key
> before typing latin characters than punctuation characters.
>
> Regards,
> Dov
>
> 2009/3/5 Jonathan Ben Avraham <yba at tkos.co.il>
>
>>
>> Guess that answers the question about RLM/LRM.
>>
>>  - yba
>>
>> On Thu, 5 Mar 2009, Baruch Siach wrote:
>>
>>  Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 09:04:16 +0200
>>> From: Baruch Siach <baruch at tkos.co.il>
>>> To: Jonathan Ben Avraham <yba at tkos.co.il>
>>> Cc: Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com>, linux-il. <linux-il at cs.huji.ac.il
>>>>
>>> Subject: Re: RLM mark in standard Hebrew keyboard layout
>>>
>>> Hi Yonatan,
>>>
>>> On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 08:45:17AM +0200, Jonathan Ben Avraham wrote:
>>>
>>>> What is "standard Hebrew keyboard layout" (disregarding aleph-tav)?
>>>>
>>>
>>> How about SI1452?
>>>
>>> http://www.qsm.co.il/NewHebrew/Key1452e.htm
>>>
>>> baruch
>>>
>>>  On Wed, 4 Mar 2009, Dotan Cohen wrote:
>>>>
>>>>  Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2009 23:13:24 +0200
>>>>> From: Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com>
>>>>> To: linux-il. <linux-il at cs.huji.ac.il>
>>>>> Subject: RLM mark in standard Hebrew keyboard layout
>>>>>
>>>>> Where is the RLM (right to left mark) on the standard Hebrew keyboard
>>>>> layout? I have googled and found that I can configure the Lyx layout
>>>>> and then the RTM character is at Ctrl-Y, but can I make it Ctrl-{ like
>>>>> in another popular OS?
>>>>>
>>>>> Also, where is a list of the Shift characters in Lyx? I have found
>>>>> some images that show where the nikud are, but none of them show the
>>>>> RTM and LTM marks, and I suspect that they may be otherwise incomplete
>>>>> as well. Thanks.
>>>>>
>>>>> Suggestions for other alternative Hebrew layouts welcome!
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
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