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Esperanto keyboard for windows 8

od ShannonCC, 15 października 2013

Wpisy: 22

Język: English

ShannonCC (Pokaż profil) 15 października 2013, 01:46:57

Hi, total newbie here. I'm trying to learn Esperanto and would like to be able to type it instead of sticking with the "x" thing.

I searched and found some people talking about keyboards but I really couldn't follow them. I am just your average computer user - ie, it's a magic box that does what I want most of the time okulumo.gif

Can anyone explain in plain English how a person with windows 8 would be able to make her keyboard fit Esperanto? And go back and forth easily (because most of my life is in English)?

I am on this site in Firefox if that matters. I can also do Explorer. I have also been going to livemocha for their Esperanto but as of today's lesson they are marking me wrong because I can't type the correct characters.

And if it really can't be explained in plain English then please just give me the computerese and I'll get my techie husband to help, but I'd love to be able to do it myself.

Thanks in advance ridulo.gif

Nile (Pokaż profil) 15 października 2013, 02:01:43

First off, welcome to Lernu!

If you give me an email address, I can send you the one I use.
Mine replaces the W with Ŭ and you write the circumflexed letters by holding rightalt or ctrl+alt.

If that wouldn't satisfy you, I can make you a keyboard where the backslash key or something lets you write them.

And if you don't want to give an email address, I can explain how to make your own keyboard layouts.

noelekim (Pokaż profil) 15 października 2013, 02:54:07

ShannonCC:Hi, total newbie here. I'm trying to learn Esperanto and would like to be able to type it instead of sticking with the "x" thing.
The simplest method is ...

Open traduku.net

Type with x-surrogates right there on the main screen. The standard Esperanto characters magically appear.

Copy and paste.

Bemused (Pokaż profil) 15 października 2013, 08:15:32

Nile: I can explain how to make your own keyboard layouts.
That would be awesomeridulo.gif
Being able to do our own keyboard layouts instead of relying on web sites to create Esperanto special characters.
I would greatly appreciate if you could post such an explanation.
Preferably something non complicated like alt/u for ŭ, alt/c for ĉ etc.

Fenris_kcf (Pokaż profil) 15 października 2013, 08:32:20

noelekim:The simplest method is ...

Open traduku.net

Type with x-surrogates right there on the main screen. The standard Esperanto characters magically appear.
[irony]-tags should be placed around this.

Chainy (Pokaż profil) 15 października 2013, 09:12:31

I can send you a really cool keyboard:

Ctrl + Alt + Shift = Ŝ (etc)

Very smooth typing with that.

On the other hand, you might like Tajpi.

makis (Pokaż profil) 15 października 2013, 11:52:39

I'm not a fan of all the extra work involved in hitting different key combinations just to get one diacritic. So, I just got used to reading and writing with the x-system and I use Ek! to automagically translate x-system to diacritics when I want it to look nice.

erinja (Pokaż profil) 15 października 2013, 12:01:32

I use Tajpi. It runs invisibly on my computer. It is easy to turn it off and on, though I usually just always leave it on, since it's only a few words (like "auxiliary" ) where you're likely to have a problem with the x system turning English words wrong - and even then, you just hit the x twice and it goes back to the correct English word. No copying and pasting, etc. The nice thing about using a program like Tajpi is that you can get used to typing with the x-system (or the h-system, whatever you set the program to) -- and then when you're using someone else's computer, you just type normally and it comes out in the x-system. This is useful for when you're typing an Esperanto e-mail on someone else's computer, you just get the x-system and it requires no thought whatsoever on your part, regarding "what keymap am I using?" etc.

Terran (Pokaż profil) 15 października 2013, 12:51:33

Tajpi is the best!

ShannonCC (Pokaż profil) 15 października 2013, 13:29:53

Thank you for all the options!

After reading through here, I think for now I will try the Tajpi and see if I like it. Erinja, I think you had a good point about being able to type it on any computer, so maybe I should get used to the x thing anyway.

I've only done x so far but I now see there are more (I've only been doing this a week). Can someone point me to where the list of English replacement for Esperanto letters is, so I know I'm doing them right?

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