The “Thessalonica — Customize Keyboard” dialog
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To access Thessalonica’s keyboard customization utility, press the “Customize keyboard” button on the “Thessalonica” toolbar. The following dialog box should be displayed:
The “Thessalonica — Customize Keyboard” dialog
The list box control at the upper left corner of the dialog window is used to select the keyboard layout you want to configure. Selecting one of the items from this list will update values of all other controls in the dialog, so that they always correspond to the layout you have chosen. Note that beginning from the version 3.0 Thessalonica no longer forces a user to deal with some predefined “layouts” with conventional names: instead, all the formatting properties are directly associated with input methods available in the package, and the term “layout” now applies to those input methods themselves.
Thus for each layout (or input method) you may specify the following parameters:
A keyboard accelerator. Beginning from the version 3.0 Thessalonica allows to associate a key combination directly with any of its layouts, rather than with shell Basic functions. The meaning of the dialog controls used for this purpose is self-explanative: you should select a key name from the drop-down list and enable one or more checkboxes corresponding to the modifier keys Alt, Ctrl and Shift. Of course it is not recommended to assign a special function to an alphanumeric key without proper modifiers (i. e. Alt or Ctrl), as this would break the normal behavior of your keyboard. Note that any keyboard shortcut you can define in this dialog can be ised as a toggle key, i. e. it will either activate or deactivate the given layout depending from the current keyboard state.
Formatting options: font family, weight, slant and text language. The formatting you have specified here will be automatically applied to the insertion point each time you turn the layout on. E. g. you can configure Thessalonica to switch to the Greek language and your favorite Unicode font containing Greek letters (e. g. Old Standard, Gentium or Cardo) each time you start typing Greek. If you don’t want to change formatting (i. e. you use the same font for all languages), just set all values to “(no changes)” (this setting is used by default for almost all input methods).
Note that currently there is no special set of options which would control the formatting applied at the time a layout is disabled. Instead Thessalonica attempts to remember the current formatting when the user selects an input method so that this formatting can be restored later together with the standard keyboard state.
You can turn Thessalonica’ keyboard layouts on and off using the drop-down box on the Thessalonica toolbar. Note that this operation always affects only the active document window, so that you can have different input methods enabled for each document you are editing.
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