[XeTeX] xunicode.sty -- pinyin and TIPA shortcuts

[Jonathan Kew]

On 8 Apr 2006, at 10:39 am, Robert Spence wrote:

> But after years of switching daily between German and English  
> keyboard layouts I find the "idealized" keyboard I now have in my  
> head when I'm typing is a kind of unreal composite---German umlauts  
> where they should be for German (unless I happen to want one of the  
> non-German characters at the time...); everything else as for  
> English, except that shift-2 would give me double quotation marks  
> as in German (except when typing email addresses), and Y and Z are  
> always (regardless of the language) in accordance with the German  
> keyboard layout, instead of the English!

If you'd like a personalized "ideal" keyboard layout suited to your  
particular typing habits and character usage, why not use the Ukelele  
tool (http://scripts.sil.org/ukelele) to create it? A few minutes  
spent there could save a lot of tedious layout-switching. :)

JK