C, D, F, G, M, P, S, and T, in both upper- and lower-case. To complete my Ard-Ghaeilge keyboard layout, I just do the same for the other aspirated consonants in Irish, i.e. I can enter this after unchecking the SHIFT checkbox and leaving the CTRL-ALT checkbox checked. I got the Unicode numbers from OO Writer, Insert > Special Character, choose Times New Roman font and scroll down till you come to the Latin Extended Additional section.Ī lower-case version of this Ḃ, is simply the next Unicode character - U+1E03. Then I'd enter 'U+1E02' into the text-field in the resulting dialogue box and finally click OK. So if, for example, I wanted to add a Ḃ (which equates to the Bh in Modern Irish) to my keyboard, I'd check the SHIFT and CTRL-ALT checkboxes and then click on the B key. You can read about MS Keyboard Layout Creator here.Ĭreating the Ard-Ghaeilge keyboard layout is simply a matter of starting out with an English Qwerty layout and adding in key combinations for the old Irish consonants desired. This is a screenshot of the Microsoft program ('Keyboard Layout Creator') that I used to create an old Irish keyboard layout.

So I must get away from the CTRL key mappings on my 'Irish-Custom' mapping and then report back. Were I to enter CTRL + B, it would change the format to bold. I notice it has the effect of changing the format to subscript.

Here my CTRL-SHIFT + B does not cause any character to be entered. On my OOW doc page, all goes well till I reach the Bh bit. So when I go to test out the Bunchló Ársa GC font, with its associated 'Irish-Custom' keyboard mapping, by writing out : R, SHIFT, etc) and this performs an application function like switching languages or tabbing to the end of the line, etc. The OpenOffice Writer seems a built-in shortcut for language change that uses CTRL + something else (e.g. (Even in English keyboards)įor capitalised vowels it's just CTRL-ALT-SHIFT + vowel.įor séimhithe consonants, I settled on CTRL + consonant for lower case and CTRL-SHIFT + consonant for upper case. Thanks to RoryOF and Bill for their replies.įor fadas, there is no need to devise new key combinations as CTRL-ALT + vowel does the job.

Micros oft keyboard layout creator 1.4