Many of you might be interested in taking a look at the public
beta of Keyman 5.0 at
www.tavultesoft.com
This is a very flexible tool for creating keyboard input
methods (but not input method editors). It doesn't have the
nice visual editing tool that's included in another tool
recently mentioned here. It does have a lot more power,
however, since it includes a specialised programming language
for designing keyboards. This includes contextual rules,
arrays, subroutines and other features that allow you to create
many-to-many mappings between sequences of keystrokes and
sequences of characters. (It was originally designed in Win3.1
days to be powerful enough to generate presentation form
encodings of complex scripts.)
I know the developer, Marc Durdin, would be very appreciative
of any feedback.
Peter
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