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Short:Keymap for US kbd, with easier accents
Author:jtv at xs4all.nl (Jeroen T. Vermeulen)
Uploader:jtv xs4all nl (Jeroen T Vermeulen)
Type:driver/input
Architecture:generic
Date:1996-12-30
Download:http://aminet.net/driver/input/AccentMap.lha - View contents
Readme:http://aminet.net/driver/input/AccentMap.readme
Downloads:6859

This is a replacement Amiga keymap (keyboard driver) for US-style keyboards.
It is fully identical to the default USA keymap built into the KickStart ROM
except that accents and somer other internation characters are easier to reach.

In addition to all existing key combinations (the ones I added were previously
unused), you now have the following "dead" keys to get an accent over the next
letter you type:

                                                        Applies to letters
Dead key                Meaning                        "AaCcEeIiNnOoUuYy "
>------------------------------------------------------------------------------<
Alt-`                   Accent grave                    Àà  ÈèÌì  ÒòÙù
 `
Alt-~ (alt-shift-`)     Tilde                           Ãã      ÑñÕõ    ~
Alt-^ (alt-shift-6)     Accent circonflexe              Ââ  ÊêÎî  ÔôÛû
 ^
Alt-'                   Accent aigu                     Áá  ÉéÍí 
ÓóÚúÝý'
Alt-" (alt-shift-')     Umlaut/trema                    Ää  ËëÏï 
ÖöÜüÿ "
Alt-,                   Cedille                           Çç

Of course this will only work if that particular combination of accent and
letter is available; otherwise you get the letter without accent.  Note that any
of these accents can also be applied to the space bar.

The old accents under alt-f, alt-g, alt-h, alt-j, and alt-k are still there if
you are used to them, so if you need to type accents regularly there's really no
reason not to use my new keymap.

Also available are the following simple international characters:

Key combination         Symbol
>------------------------------<
Alt-! (alt-shift-1)     ¡
Alt-? (alt-shift-/)     ¿


And just for consistency with those two I threw in some extras as well:

Key combination         Symbol
>------------------------------<
Alt-                   /
Alt-/                   


The keymap was created by editing one of the keyboard drivers on my Workbench
3.0 disks using EditKeys by David Kinder.  So far it has only been used on
A4000s running OS version 3.0 (V39), but to my knowledge it should work on all
Amiga systems.  If there are any requests, I'll be happy to add these shortcuts
to the other keymaps (d/Deutsch, n/Norsk, gb/British etc) as well.

Hope it's of some use to you.  ¡If so, enjoy!


==========================================================================
#  Jeroen T. Vermeulen   "How are we doing?"//   Yes, we use Amigas    #
#---  jtv at xs4all.nl    ---"Same as always."//--         ...          --#
#jvermeul at wi.leidenuniv.nl "That bad huh?"//  Got a problem with that? #


Contents of driver/input/AccentMap.lha
 PERMSSN    UID  GID    PACKED    SIZE  RATIO METHOD CRC     STAMP          NAME
---------- ----------- ------- ------- ------ ---------- ------------ -------------
[generic]                  269     628  42.8% -lh5- 8b10 Dec 30  1996 AccentMap.info
[generic]                 3123    6767  46.2% -lh5- b512 Dec 30  1996 AccentMap/AccentMap.doc
[generic]                  334     849  39.3% -lh5- c3cd Dec 30  1996 AccentMap/AccentMap.doc.info
[generic]                 1044    1696  61.6% -lh5- 93e4 Dec 30  1996 AccentMap/accents.keymap
---------- ----------- ------- ------- ------ ---------- ------------ -------------
 Total         4 files    4770    9940  48.0%            Dec 30  1996

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