invalid lafayette.keylayout built with Kalamine (duplicate XML elements) (macOS)

[iovantsaous]

I run Debian 12 at home. I first installed pipx, then Kalamine 0.36.

I downloaded Qwerty Lafayette v0.9 https://qwerty-lafayette.org/layouts/lafayette.toml

I built lafayette.toml with Kalamine and began to use with Debian : it worked fine.

Then, I tried to install the dist/lafayette.keylayout file at the office, on a very old macOS (Mojave 10.14).

I know how to install a *.keylayout file in ~/Library/Keyboard\ Layouts, as I've done it a couple of times before, but this time it didn't worked – the layout didn't showed up in Preferences > Keyboard > Input Sources (or Préférences > Clavier > Méthodes de saisie as the locale is French).

Looking at the lafayette.keylayout file (attached to this issue as lafayette.keylayout.txt ), I found two duplicate blocks of XML elements :

The first one at lines 1252-1259, the second one at lines 1268-1275 :

$ nl -b a lafayette.keylayout  | sed -n '1252,1259p;1268,1275p' 
  1252	    <action id="ab08_;">
  1253	      <when state="none"       output=";" />
  1254	      <when state="1dk"        output="•" />
  1255	    </action>
  1256	    <action id="ab08_;">
  1257	      <when state="none"       output=";" />
  1258	      <when state="1dk"        output="•" />
  1259	    </action>
  1268	    <action id="ab10_?">
  1269	      <when state="none"       output="?" />
  1270	      <when state="1dk"        output="¿" />
  1271	    </action>
  1272	    <action id="ab10_?">
  1273	      <when state="none"       output="?" />
  1274	      <when state="1dk"        output="¿" />
  1275	    </action>

I deleted the duplicate blocks. The layout then appeared in Input Sources and I was able to use it (as a proof : I’ve written some paragraphs of this message with Lafayette).

I don't know whether the issue comes from Qwerty Lafayette or from Kalamine (I tried to look at the Kalamine code, but I have no programming skills). But for testing purpose I built two other layouts :

• Ergol (from https://ergol.org/layouts/ergol.toml)
• Lafayette101 (from https://github.com/fabi1cazenave/qwerty-lafayette/blob/main/layouts/lafayette101.toml)

I could install Ergol, but not lafayette101.keylayout. There was another duplicate block :

 752     <action id="ae01_!">
 753       <when state="none"       output="!" />
 754       <when state="1dk"        output="¡" />
 755     </action>

So I deleted the duplicata XML element and the layout showed up in Input sources.

For information, the prebuilt layout for Lafayette v0.8, downloaded from https://qwerty-lafayette.org/releases/lafayette_macos_v0.8.keylayout, works fine on macOS 10.14.