[ubuntu-in] SCIM: imp. add'n in baraha system

[Dinbandhu]

On Mon, 2007-09-10 at 16:07 +0530, Gaurav Mishra wrote:
> On 9/9/07, Dinbandhu <dinbandhu at sprynet.com> wrote:
> > Hello Gora,
> >
> > 1. In the Baraha system, F12 is a toggle button for toggling between
> > English and whatever language one is typing in.
> 
> > Perhaps SCIM already has such a toggle feature. If so, please let me
> > know which key is the toggle key. If there is no such feature in SCIM,
> > then it would be very much helpful for Baraha users to have this feature
> > added, which they are used to.
> 
> you can toggle between English and the Selected Indic language through
> Ctrl+Space

Great. Yes, I see it works very well. Thank you very much. 

Does anyone have any suggestion regarding the second matter I raised? I
am posting it just below, should anyone need to see it again.

Swarup

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2. Baraha has a memory window in which during 7 seconds or so after
typing any given letter, it maintains that letter in its active
capacity. That is to say, if one has typed a joint consonant (such
as ष्ट) or if one has typed a consonant with matra (such as मे) and made
a mistake in the latter part of the character, then one has 7 seconds in
which the computer will continue to see the first part as a unit which
can be added to. So there will be no need to delete the entire
character. For example, if one typed मे but meant to type मि then one
can just backspace once and redo the matra. There is no need to
backspace twice to delete the म  and start the character from the
beginning. 

Over the course of a full document, this is quite time-saving and quite
practical. In our SCIM baraha, whenever one makes an error in the midst
of such a combined character, one has to delete the entire character and
start again. And sometimes these characters involve 4 or 5 keystrokes.

I do not know whether there may be some way to incorporate this feature
into the SCIM Baraha set-up. If there is a way to do it, that would be
great.