new SI1452 keyboard layout

[Tzafrir Cohen]

Hi

Long ago there was a thread on the ivrix-discuss mailing list with the
title "SI1452 insanity"[1]. I've been a long time proponent of the "lyx"
variant of the Israely X11 keyboard layout rather than the standard one
(Standard of Israel no. 1452).

Luckily in thr last year there has been some work to revise this
standard. There is an initial draft:

http://www.lingnu.com/he/howto/78-si1452.html

And indeed there are comments:
http://blog.shemesh.biz/2010/12/%D7%98%D7%99%D7%95%D7%98%D7%90-%D7%A8%D7%90%D7%A9%D7%95%D7%A0%D7%94-%D7%9C%D7%AA%D7%A7%D7%9F-%D7%9E%D7%A7%D7%9C%D7%93%D7%AA-%D7%A2%D7%91%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%AA-%D7%9E%D7%97%D7%95%D7%93%D7%A9/

I tried this. I must say it is sane and usable. I'm quite happy with it.
But something is missing. the Hebrew hiphen: '־' (as opposed to '-').

There were quite a few comments in the links above about stuff that is
missing, but I suppose there's no use talking about it. You have to try
it. So I set up a small git repo with the xkb mapping and put my changes
in a branch:

http://gitorious.org/si1452-xkb/si1452-xkb/commits/tzafrir

There's also a small script there to extract the interesting mappings in
a more readable way:

si1452-xkb(tzafrir)$ ./keys
9:  LEFT-TO-RIGHT MARK
0:  RIGHT-TO-LEFT MARK
minus:  HEBREW HIPHEN
slash:  HEBREW POINT SIN DOT
apostrophe:  HEBREW POINT SHIN DOT
hebrew_qoph:  HEBREW POINT QAMATS, HEBREW POINT QAMATS QATAN
hebrew_resh:  HEBREW POINT HATAF QAMATS
hebrew_waw:  HEBREW POINT HOLAM
hebrew_pe:  HEBREW POINT PATAH
bracketright:  HEBREW POINT HATAF PATAH
hebrew_shin:  HEBREW POINT SHEVA
hebrew_dalet:  HEBREW POINT DAGESH OR MAPIQ (or shuruq)
hebrew_het:  HEBREW POINT HIRIQ
hebrew_samech:  HEBREW POINT SEGOL
hebrew_bet:  HEBREW POINT HATAF SEGOL
hebrew_nun:  HEBREW POINT NUN HAFUKHA
hebrew_zade:  HEBREW POINT TSERE
hebrew_finalzade:  HEBREW POINT QUBUTS

Can you improve that output?

[1] Any idea where I can find the archives of this list on-line?

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