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The Wyrdplay Internotional deluxe keyboard map is a modification of the basic Wyrdplay Internotional map supporting a number of additional Unicode accented letters and IPA symbols of potential use in reformed English spellings. The basic WI keyboard map is described here.
To install the WI deluxe keyboard map, follow the instructions for the basic keyboard, noting that the file names for the deluxe keyboard are Wyrdo2d.msi and i386\Wyrdo2d.dll.
Here are the layouts of right-Alt and shifted right-Alt keys for the deluxe keyboard. Note that these layouts are not much different from the layouts for the basic keyboard, as most of the additional characters are supported through dead keys.
The changes in this part of the layout are as follows:
Right-Alt-shift g and h are replaced by ğ and ħ. The displaced ligatures æ and œ are now generated as IPA characters, using the dead-key sequences `4 and `6 respectively.
The right-Alt-grave, producing the macron character (¯), is an additional dead key. The position of the tilde (˜) dead key and the macron dead key have been interchanged in order to place the key with the larger number of associated characters in the unshifted position.
A brief summary of changes in the use of dead keys in the
deluxe
keyboard map is as follows:
In addition to its use in adding a grave accent, the backquote dead key also serves as an IPA shift. With two exceptions, all supported non-ASCII IPA symbols are produced using the backquote dead key. When the backquote dead key is applied to a shifted key, the result is often an uppercase version of the unshifted IPA character. Although uppercase is not used in IPA, the uppercase versions may be of use if one is working in an orthography adopting these characters. See below for specific examples.
The right-Alt-equals (±) dead key serves a different purpose in the deluxe map than in the basic map. In the deluxe map, it is used to generate one of a small set of IPA diacritics applicable to English.
The right-Alt-backquote (¯) key is used to generate letters with the macron and breve diacritics. See below.
Additional forms of the letters y (ỳ, ŷ, ȳ and ỹ) and w (ẃ, ŵ and ẅ) have been added in the natural way.
The right-Alt-tilde (˜) dead key supports all five vowel letters as well as y.
The additional letters č, ǐ and ű, as well as the rhotic IPA characters ɚ and ɝ, are generated using the right-Alt-backslash (¬) dead key.
Here are diagrams showing the effect of the backquote, right-Alt-backslash and right-Alt-backquote dead keys. The first two diagrams define the backquote dead key, the first when applied to unshifted keys, and the second when applied to shifted keys. The final diagram, for the right-Alt-backquote key, also shows the IPA diacritics that can be generated by the right-Alt-equals dead key. Note that the "shift state" portions of the diagrams should be ignored - they are artifacts of the way in which MSKLC was persuaded to generate the diagrams.
Notes:
The keyboard generates the iota symbol (ɩ) rather than a small caps i (ɪ) because it has a more distinct uppercase form. Feel free to modify the keyboard if you prefer the more orthodox symbol.
The vowel symbols ɑ, ɛ and ʊ would naturally be assigned to `a, `e and `u respectively, but these combinations are already in use for à, è and ù. So these symbols are assigned instead to the alphabetically nearby `b, `f and `w respectively.
The IPA symbols ɩ, ə, ɜ, ç, ʔ and ø are assigned to `1, `2, `3, `5, `7 and `0 on the basis of their shape. æ and œ are similarly assigned to `4 and `6, though the resemblance is more fanciful (and more obvious with the upper case forms Æ and Œ).
The IPA symbols ç, ð and ø, being standard Windows-1252 characters, can also be generated as right-Alt-c, right-Alt-d and right-Alt-q respectively.
The use of ʘ, Δ and Ω as capital forms of ɒ, ɑ and ʍ respectively is unorthodox, but seems to me rather transparent. On the other hand, the use of Ʃ as the upper-case form of ʃ has precedent in existing African orthographies. Finally, the character Э rather than З is used as the upper case of ɜ to avoid confusion with the digit 3.
The IPA diacritics generated using the right-Alt-equals key are assigned keys based on similarity of shape, e.g., the subscript circle diacritic is assigned to ±0. They should be typed after the character to which they apply. For instance, to generate the symbol ʌ̃ (the vowel sound of the word uh-huh), the sequence to type is `v±`, the first two keystrokes producing the base character, and the second two the diacritic. The diacritics supported are those which seem to me to be most relevant to English; apologies if I left out your favorite!
The IPA length modifier ː is generated by either of the sequences `; or `: . Of course, for most uses of IPA, the regular colon will be adequate for this purpose (just as ' and , will generally do for stress marks).
The macron dead key (right-Alt-backquote) appends a macron to a following vowel letter. For a vowel with a breve diacritic, the macron should be followed by the next letter in alphabetic sequence, except that ŭ is generated by ¯w. ŏ is generated by the sequence ¯v as well as by ¯p, by analogy to the generation of ö from right-Alt-v.