Announce: Hspell 1.3

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 05:42:43PM +0200, Nadav Har'El wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 25, 2015, E.S. Rosenberg wrote about "Re: Announce: Hspell 1.3":
> > Thanks for your great work!
> > 
> > While we're on the topic of writing Hebrew on OSS (and even non-oss),
> > I have always wondered how people type with niqqud and never succeeded
> > in finding a nice guide (for linux/libreoffice)...
> 
> First, you need to make sure you use a font which has niqqud. Many of
> the excellent Culmus fonts do support niqqud, so hopefully you're
> using one that supports niqqud (if not, switch).
> 
> Second, you need a keyboard mapping which allows you to type niqqud.
> The single-handedly best for that is the so-called "he-lyx" mapping.
> How to enable it depends on your "desktop environment", but in my own
> no-frills environment I actually set the keyboard mapping directly
> with the command:
> 
> setxkbmap -option grp:switch,grp:shift_toggle,grp_led:scroll us,il ,lyx

setxkbmap's -option needs resetting. If you follow this, try:

  setxkbmap -option '' -option grp:switch,grp:shift_toggle,grp_led:scroll us,il ,lyx

Note that in the latest versions, the keyboard mapping includes the
latest version of SI1452:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:UniversalLanguageSelector/Input_methods/he-standard-2012-extonly/he

For this you should use something along the lines of:

setxkbmap -option '' -option \
        "grp:shift_toggle,grp:switch,lv3:ralt_switch"
\
        us,il

Like the above, but the right alt is used to switch (temporarily) to
third shift level, where most Nikkud signs are.

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