Akan Keyboard Layouts, Bundling Bungling
I created two Akan keyboard layouts for Mac OS X the day before yesterday, corresponding to the layouts from kasahorow and Nyalasi for Windows. I should probably write up documentation for these, but the Keyboard Viewer should be good enough for most people’s purposes. These are open source: Do with them what you will. This was done with the neat Mac app Ukelele.
Akan - Kasahorow.keylayout (76 Kb)
Akan - Nyalasi.keylayout (76 Kb)
To install, simply drop the .keylayout file into ~/Library/Keyboard Layouts/ on your own computer. (There are, of course, multiple levels of Library directories. If you know what you’re doing, choose the one that fits. If you don’t know what you’re doing, go with the Library in your root directory.)
I’m also working on a bundle version that has the two layouts together, along with pretty icons. I have thus far been unsuccessful with the bundling. If you think you can help, check out:
Akan.bundle.zip (108 Kb)
5 January 2006 at 12:07
I went and downloaded several keylayouts from the Web, and those that have an icon just ask you to install the .icns file alongside the .keylayout file. Not very clean. I’ll ask around at work about it.
By the way, I stumbled upon this: http://wordherd.com/keyboards/
21 January 2006 at 11:35
Yeah. I have no issue doing this just for my own purposes, but, silly though it may be (who types Twi on a Mac?), I’d like to make the layouts available to others. Human error is a lot less likely with a single drag-and-drop bundle than it is with multiple files.
The link you sent is pretty keen, huh? I experimented with it a little before trying Ukelele.