Re: Questions about Quail

[Visuwesh]

[சனி ஜூலை 23, 2022] James Thomas wrote:

> Visuwesh wrote:
>
>>> 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.
>
> Reading rule 5, it seems to me that separate mappings for "h" and "hh"
> should do the trick. For rule 6, you could map "ha" also. For 7, map
> also all combinations of soft and hard consonants.
>

I considered that but the implementation that I used as a reference was
this web one https://wk.w3tamil.com/ which considers not the keystrokes
but the character before point.  That made more sense to me as well so I
decided to implement these rules in the update-translation function.

In that web keyboard, try typing hj (கப) then backspace (க) and type h
again: you will get க்க.  This feels a lot more typo resilient than
making hh insert க்க.

In any case, if a Tamil speaker is reading this and are familiar with
this keyboard layout, can you try out https://github.com/vizs/tamil99?