Announce: Hspell 1.3

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 08:32:08AM +0200, Nadav Har'El wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 25, 2015, Tzafrir Cohen wrote about "Re: Announce: Hspell 1.3":
> > 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.
> 
> Do you know why decided to go with that "third level", with that alt,
> instead of just using the shift as in the lyx mapping?

To maintain compatibility with the existing standard (the part that
people actually use). Too many people actually use shift-Hebrew as
capital English. It's broken, but breaking it would upset too many
people.

I suppose you weren't in AP11, so maybe watch this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTtBmNxSohM

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