Re: keyboard macro

[Rustom Mody]

On Monday, October 21, 2013 10:05:51 PM UTC+5:30, Christof Spitz wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have to write special characters for transliteration of a non-european
> 
> language (devanagari) in Emacs. These include characters like ā,ī,ū,ś,ṣ etc.


Can you try this?  It uses Itrans scheme

(require 'quail)

(quail-define-package
 "devanagari-diacritic" "UTF-8" "अ" t
 "Example diacritic

" nil t t nil t nil nil nil nil nil t)

(defvar devanagari-map
  '(("A"  ?ā)
    ("I"  ?ī)
    ("U"  ?ū)
    ("~N" ?ṅ)
    ("~n" ?ñ)
    ("N"  ?ṇ)
    ("T"  ?ṭ)
    ("D"  ?ḍ)
    ("sh" ?ś)
    ("Sh" ?ṣ)
))

(defun quail-block-defrules (kb quail-package)
  (dolist (key-trans devanagari-map)
    (let ((key (car key-trans))
      (trans (cadr key-trans)))
      (quail-defrule key trans quail-package))))

(quail-block-defrules devanagari-map "devanagari-diacritic")