Re: [abcusers] Keyboard layout
hello, if you're interested I may add this feature in JedABC. What OS are you using? Later, Guido =8-) -- Guido Gonzato, Ph.D. guido . gonzato at univr . it - Linux System Manager Universita' di Verona (Italy), Facolta' di Scienze MM. FF. NN. Ca' Vignal II, Strada Le Grazie 15, 37134 Verona (Italy) Tel. +39 045 8027990; Fax +39 045 8027928 --- Timeas hominem unius libri To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
Re: [abcusers] Keyboard layout
I've played around with keyboard mappings too, but eventually concluded that nothing else is going to be faster than the conventional layout. One thing I have found useful though is to use the ctrl and alt modifier keys to get octave shifts. An option in BarFly causes ctrl-A to give a' and alt-A a''. With the shift key down as well you get the lower octaves, so shift-ctrl-A gives A, and shift-alt-A gives A,,. (The ctrl key is not used for menu equivalents on the Mac, we've got another key for that.) Phil Taylor To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
Re: [abcusers] Keyboard layout
Randall J Elzinga wrote I'm curious to know if anyone has ever written keyboard drivers to remap the keys of a typical computer keyboard to something that would be more accommodating to entry of ABCs. For example, characters that are used most often can be mapped to keys in the home row, or the row above it. I realise you're really interested in physical keyboards, but as an aside: in the handheld world of skinnable virtual keyboards this kind of thing is easy. In fact it's so easy that I've done it, for my PalmOS machine. Specifically, I've written an ABC overlay for the VirtualKB keyboard manager, giving you two rows of keys C..B and c..b plus other abc symbols. It's free, and available from http://www.thomasbending.co.uk/palm Caveat: VirtualKB is a hack, so doesn't work on my spiffy new Sony Clie running PalmOS 5 8-(. I'm investigating alternatives ... Thomas Bending To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
