Summary
Draws a picture of an XKB keyboard layout.
This program takes a description of an XKB keyboard layout, and outputs a pretty XML keyboard, styled so that it can be viewed in a web browser. The output XML could possibly be used by other programs.
Written because xkbprint sucks. In particular, xkbprint
- displays its internal character name (e.g.
Cyrillic_softsign,rightdoublequotemark,U0462) rather than the actual character (e.g.ь,”,Ѣ) - ’s output is sometimes upside-down
- outputs in black and white and uses an ugly font
- can only display 2 shift states (!)
- etc.
To configure it, edit the CSS file.
To do @@@@@
- Write the actual program that generates the XML.
- Replace the CSS with XSL, for more flexibility?
- Display the Unicode code number in small font underneath the caption (rather than only in the tooltip) so you can see it if you print it out
Caveats
- Currently it doesn’t actually work, since browsers don’t implement CSS 3’s
attr()function.