Hi Alexander,
I know what you mean. I initially went through too much myself getting it all to work. Eventually, David Lamkins wrote a simple program called AKT. It does all the translation for you. I now use GNU APL on Linux with zero special configuration. It just works. I can't speak for BSD, but BSD also runs X11 so it may work fine. AKT is now available at
https://github.com/blakemcbride/akt
There are several alternative approaches. They're all in the docs. I've used a couple and they work too.
Good luck!
Blake
On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 6:00 PM Alexander Shendi (Web.DE) <
address@hidden> wrote:
Dear List,
I feel seriously intellectually challenged. I have compiled gnu apl under NetBSD (SVN-1271) and all went fine.
But I'm just not up to configuring the X Window System to support APL input and output. These are the steps I've taken so far:
1. set the locale to en_US. UTF-8 (by setting LC_ALL=en_US. UTF-8).
2. Compile the file trunk/
support-files/old-Keyboard/apl.xkm resulting in a file apl.xkb in the current directory.
3. Try to configure the keyboard. A sample session looks like: (see attached typescript).
4. I have not even attempted to add the APL fonts to a font directory. More fun.
Is there any guide on doing this? ELI5, preferably in words of one syllable or less.
Or should I give up on APL altogether?
With frustrated salutations,
-- Alexander
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