libreoffice+hebrew nikud

[Yedidyah Bar-David]

On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 11:39:19PM +0200, Nadav Har'El wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 26, 2012, Dan Kenigsberg wrote about "Re: libreoffice+hebrew nikud":
> > ditto. I've been using the "lyx" layout ever since Tzafrir had incorporated it
> > to xkb (but not very often). They are almost sensible (you cannot ask for more
> > when it comes to Hebrew niqqud)... Dagesh is AltGr-Daleth, Segol is
> > AltGr-Samech. No mnemonics for the Hatafim, I'm afraid. So
> > /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/il comes handy when I need to type them.
> 
> Very nice!
> I was able to enable this with the following command:
> 
> setxkbmap -option grp:switch,grp:shift_toggle,grp_led:scroll us,il ,lyx
> 
> (what an ugly command line... Even the weird "," isn't redundant...
> Users of KDE or GNOME probably have a more graphical way of enabling these
> options).
> 
> For me (with the above command), the niqqud is actually chosen with the shift
> (either left or right, it doesn't matter), NOT with the right ALT key.
> But it is indeed working well.

BTW, there is a similar setup for Windows, done by Sivan Toledo:
http://www.tau.ac.il/~stoledo/Tools/Keyboards/
The page also has a nice explanation and a map.
-- 
Didi