Re: Writting Greek in Emacs

[Visuwesh]

[வியாழன் செப்டம்பர் 19, 2024] Visuwesh wrote:

> As for disallowing accent stacking, a custom UPDATE-TRANSLATION-FUNCTION
> (see `quail-define-package') for the input method would do the job
> AFAIU.  I am not sure if there is a simpler way to achieve the same.
> Examples of such a function can be found in the Japanese input methods,
> and in malayalam-mozhi input method in Emacs.

You can set up the translation rules so that only e.g., e followed by ~
inserts epsilon with the accent.  This would avoid the problem
altogether.  (This has the disadvantage that you can no longer type ~
after an epsilon to insert the respective accent: you would need to
retype e~ to get epsilon with an accent.)  This approach is used by the
tamil99 input method in core.