The Finished Keyboard
The Quick French Keyboard
Here is the completed keyboard:
c Simplified French Keyboard for Keyman 6.2 c c This keyboard program uses a simplified set of keys c for typing French, especially for those who don't know the c standard French keyboard. c c NOTE: This keyboard was created from the Keyman keyboard c programming tutorial. VERSION 6.0 c This keyboard is for use with Keyman 6.0 or later NAME "Quick French" BITMAP "qfrench.bmp" store(&mnemoniclayout) "1" begin Unicode > use(Main) group( Main ) using keys c Store the upper and lowercase vowels with different accents store( plainvowels ) 'a' 'e' 'i' 'o' 'u' 'A' 'E' 'I' 'O' 'U' store( acutevowels ) U+00E1 U+00E9 U+00ED U+00F3 U+00FA U+00C1 U+00C9 U+00CD U+00D3 U+00DA store( gravevowels ) U+00E0 U+00E8 U+00EC U+00F2 U+00F9 U+00C0 U+00C8 U+00CC U+00D2 U+00D9 store( circumvowels ) U+00E2 U+00EA U+00EE U+00F4 U+00FB U+00C2 U+00CA U+00CE U+00D4 U+00DB store( dresisvowels ) U+00E4 U+00EB U+00EF U+00F6 U+00FC U+00C4 U+00CB U+00CF U+00D6 U+00DC c Output deadkeys only for the accent keys pressed + "'" > dk(quote) c Quote for acute accent + "`" > dk(bkquote) c Backquote for grave accent + "^" > dk(caret) c Caret for circumflex + '"' > dk(dbquote) c Double-quote for dieresis c Rules for accented vowels dk(quote) + any( plainvowels ) > index( acutevowels, 2 ) dk(bkquote) + any( plainvowels ) > index( gravevowels, 2 ) dk(caret) + any( plainvowels ) > index( circumvowels, 2 ) dk(dbquote) + any( plainvowels ) > index( dresisvowels, 2 ) c Rules for other characters dk(quote) + "y" > U+00FD c Acute-accented Y dk(quote) + "Y" > U+00DD dk(quote) + "c" > U+00E7 c C-cedilla dk(quote) + "C" > U+00C7 "<" + "<" > U+00AB c Angled quotes ">" + ">" > U+00BB c Rules for the accent character itself (type it twice) dk(quote) + "'" > "'" c Quote dk(bkquote) + "`" > "`" c Backquote dk(caret) + "^" > "^" c Caret dk(dbquote) + '"' > '"' c Double-quote c End of keyboard
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