[XeTeX] Em-dash

[Wilfred van Rooijen]

Haha, as I said in another post, the same people who developed the Optimus keyboard also developed the Tactus keyboard, which is in fact a touch screen. It would give ample opportunity to implement "strange" character input.

Cheerio,
Wilfred

--- On Tue, 4/5/10, Juan Francisco Fraile Vicente <juanfranciscofv at gmail.com> wrote:

From: Juan Francisco Fraile Vicente <juanfranciscofv at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [XeTeX] Em-dash
To: "Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other platforms" <xetex at tug.org>
Date: Tuesday, 4 May, 2010, 6:42 PM

Yes, it exists that keyboard as John has shown.
But I think that the next step is different. I think the most useful thing would be that the keyboard be another screen, but a "tactil"-digital one. I think that this option would develope all the possibilities of Unicode. 

I am not talking of a keyboard in the main screen, like in the Ipad, what is another great idea. For instance, I work in a netbook. I  have thought lately that these problems with keyboards layouts will be solved if instead of the physical keyboard, it would be a screen (could be a monitor of digital-ink like in the Ebook-readers) in which the actual keyboard layout that set the user would be shown, or perhaps a normal screen that adopts that role if the laptop/netbook is in "working position" (in other circumstances could be a two screen gadget for other functions). And new keyboard-layouts could be developed with special sections like "IPA chars" or "programming-languages oriented chars". (Only theorizing).

I know this is imagination only, but I think this kind of developments could make easier and, mainly, more comfortable a lot of work for a lot of people.
If anybody wants/can afford to try, this idea is free, like beer.

Cheers!
J.F.F.

2010/5/4 Wilfred van Rooijen <wvanrooijen at yahoo.com>


Hi all,

This seems to be precisely the issue. Xetex can read and understand all unicode characters, but at this time, the only way to communicate with the computer is through the keyboard and the mouse. Thus, there will always be issues with "special characters". I don't know if it exists, and if not it may be interesting to develop, but a keyboard with LCD keys would be nice. Then one can switch layout, and the characters on the keys appear differently. Of course, there would still be strange side-effects, such as a CJK space, which is really a 2-byte space, and xetex does not treat it as a regular space (rather, treats it like ~, I suppose).


Cheers,
Wilfred





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