EIGHT_LEVEL_SEMIALPHABETIC uses shift for level selection without explicitly preserving it and, therefore, shift is consumed.  That is, it must not be interpreted other than for level selection.  As both the shifted and the unshifted level of the space key contain the same keysym "space", space and shift+space cannot be distinguished.

To fix this, create a new type just like EIGHT_LEVEL_SEMIALPHABETIC (in types/level5), but with the added line

    preserve[Shift] = Shift;

and use that for the space key.  I use this approach succesfully with a Neo 2 level scheme which "Extend" is similar to.  Maybe it is sufficient to modify EIGHT_LEVEL_SEMIALPHABETIC, without introducing a new type.

Alternatively, find a unused keycode, give it one level with just space, and then rEIGHT_LEVEL_SEMIALPHABETIC uses Shift for level selection without explicitly preserving it and, therefore, Shift is consumed.  That is, it must not be interpreted other than for level selection.  As both the shifted and the unshifted level of the space key contain the same keysym "space", space and Shift+space cannot be distinguished.

Unfortunately, not all programs appreciate the fine points of XKB, such as consumed modifiers.

I am not aware of such a possibility.

For a personal solution that is fine, for a solution distributed to other people I would be more cautious.  Maybe you can take advantage of the new type for other keys, too, such as Return, Backspace, or F1-F12.  Also, it probably also would better be derived from EIGHT_LEVEL than from EIGHT_LEVEL_SEMIALPHABETIC, if it is to be used for keys without letters.

Fairly certain the Install Script does not work. Can you please help me? I have tried running it multiple times now.
I opened up Terminal navigated to the correct Directory then ran the script with the SH command and never used SUDO. Why is it not working?

Nevermind I took a look at the first post and ACTUALLY read it. I now have it working. Next question: Is there a way to get a picture to show up on screen, like PKL for windows does? I ask because I don't want to have to print out a separate piece of reference paper for each TARMAK step. Also, I know this may sound dumb, but do I need to add a start-up command?

Well, actually there is a layout picture in Ubuntu and some others, that you can access from the keyboard settings. And it shows what actually goes on in the layout so it'll show my layouts and CurlAngleWide-WhatHaveYou mods correctly. But only if the layout is correctly defined in the Geometry component. I've done that for my stuff so it should be fine.

It's the inner workings of the X11 xkb files. They're split into components, like keycodes (handles the scan codes from the keyboard and translates them to aliases and positions on the layout – I use it for the WideAngle mod), symbols (handles which glyphs and/or actions the keys produce so it's at the core of a layout) and rules (gets it all together and handles menu choices etc), etc.

The geometry component only handles the graphical presentation of a layout, so it could be completely wrong and you could still type away happily. But it's necessary for the image presentation.

You don't need to actually worry about this though. It's under the hood and should be working just fine for you.

I see no images being displayed. Is there some command I have to run?

I am using Ubuntu, and that does work for me. Although, I would like to replace that with one of the lovely pictures that DreymaR has created.

Yeah, that works for me. The only slightly strange thing is it seems to be applying to number and punctuation keys also, which is a bit non-standard, but not that important TBH.

Hey, DreymaR are you aware that every single one of the XKB Tarmak layouts has K and H switched from the correct Colemak Layout? This includes the final stage which is Colemak [eD]. Both the Keyboard layout chart and what letters actually get entered are switched. Can you fix this? It is hard to learn Colemak, so I want to do it right.

I would like to remap my keys so that I may have the same Tarmak layouts as shown in the animation on your Tarmak post. Currently I have the K and H (as they would be in the Colemak KH Ergo Mod) keys switched in all of my Tarmak Layouts. I tried the above solution and that did not seem to work.

hi dreymar

just trying to run your install script on a new (15.10) ubuntu machine

whats the console dir that has appeared in your x-mod_v2-12-1_2015-11-22 dir?

thats not present in the 15.10 xkb dir and as such its causing the install script to fail

I note my old 14.04 machine has no xkb/console dir either, and the prev version of your zip, x-mod_v2-12-1_2015-05-15, has no console dir in it, only the xkb dir

any ideas whats going on here?