ankra

A flexible table based input method engine made and tested only for unix systems running wayland

motivation

I wanted a way to input chinese characters, not satisfied with pinyin I looked at table based IMEs and was very much impressed. Sadly there is not much support for them on wayland for now, so I decided to make my own!

plans

• Phrase support (from a CSV or guessing) eg. HIDP => 我想 (HQI DUP)
• On enter, input current key_sequence instead of doing nothing, enabling the input of latin characters (albeit annoyingly)
• Multiple character support, guessing how to separate them (i.e. not having to press space between every character), similar to phrase support but not quite.
• Potentially show key_sequence in inline suggestion instead of just character
• Personal dictionary (which will alter weights)

installation

from source

cargo install --path src/ankrad

configuration

As of now all the configuration is done in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/ankra, where a single layout will have it's own folder consisting of the following 2 files:

• table.csv
• config.zm, which is composed of two structures:
  • keys Associates a character to a keycode, said character will be used for lookup in the table.
  • specs Associates a function to a keycode, an exhaustive list of functions may be found in the example config.