Re: Questions about Quail

[Visuwesh]

[சனி ஜூலை 23, 2022] James Thomas wrote:

> Visuwesh wrote:
>
>>     1. Is there a per-input-method activation hook?
>
> Not that I know of.

Figured.

>>        The reason I ask this is because the Tamil99 keyboard layout has
>>        a state to keep track of.  I want to reset this state whenever
>>        one activates the input method to avoid surprises.
>
> Are you sure that you actually need state? Assuming you're using the
> rules from [1], couldn't you just add a rule for mapping, say, the
> string "^#12#" to the half fraction?

Unfortunately, yes.  The problem isn't from the fractions which are
simple translation rules but from the rules 5, 6 and 7.  See p. 21 from
the PDF you linked.

>
> 1. http://www.tamilvu.org/tkbd/doc_file/Help_Linux.pdf
>
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