Seeking help with xkbcomp

[Blake McBride]

Thanks for your input.  I am happy to switch to one of the EIGHT_LEVEL's, I
just don't know how to do it.  I am playing with the AE12 key, trying to
define all 5 characters to it.  It assigns to symbols[Group1] and
symbols[Group2] but I can't figure out how it gets associated to the
PC_RALT_LEVEL2 and therefore cannot figure out how to change the
association to one of the EIGHT_LEVEL's.  If you or someone can take the
file I sent in my original post, and change the AE12 key to have five
characters, I would be able to take it from there.  This is the association
I seek for the AE12 key:

normal = equal
shift = plus
Right-Alt = multiply
Shift-Right-Alt = division
Control-Right-Alt = U2339

If I could map that, I think I could get the rest.  Thanks for the help!

Blake



On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 12:57 PM, <wettstae at gmail.com> wrote:

> > I am using normal, shift, right-alt, and right-alt-shift for four of
> > the characters.  That works.  I want to add a mapping for
> > right-alt-ctl to get that last character.
>
> > I think the problem I have is that my Group2 keys need to have 3
> > levels.
>
> Splitting your four levels across two groups is probably not the easiest
> way to go.
>
> You could use the key type LOCAL_EIGHT_LEVEL to implement you want.  If
> you do that, your right Alt key should be an ISO_Level3_Shift rather
> than a Mode_switch.  See symbols/nbsp for a usage example.  But I wonder
> whether how well Control for level selection really works.  In theory, it
> is fine, but practise might be different.
>
> If you are willing to an sacrifice an additional key for level
> switching, you have many more options.  For example, you could make the
> right Control key an ISO_Level5_Shift, and use the type EIGHT_LEVEL.
>
> Or you could use latches; see the de(T3) layout (in a recent
> xkeyboard-config) for an example of a eight-level layout accessed with
> latches.
>
> Andreas
>
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