On 03/18/2013 04:24 PM, Jameson Quinn wrote:
- Easy-to-learn coming from Qwerty; only 11 keys move, and 9 of those
remain on the same finger.
Few differences are actually harder to adapt to, at least in my experience.
- Includes custom-built dead key layouts for over 1000 possible unicode
output symbols or combinations.
- That means it's usable internationally, not just German/English.
For instance, there's easy access to ç, ñ, ¿, and similar
characters, and even things like ð and ž are available.
http://wiki.neo-layout.org/wiki/Tote%20Tasten%20und%20Compose
There’s some tables in there in case you don’t want to read the whole
german text. And you can find „¿“ and „¡“ on Neo layer 4.
I wouldn't expect anyone who's already converted to Neo to switch, but I'm
posting this here for greater publicity, and also because there's a few
things
I've done which may be of common interest:
I think the biggest concern German users will face with your qwpr is the
lack of umlaut keys. Even though they’re nowhere close to being
frequently typed it’s just bad for writing German.
How good or bad your proposal is for Egnlish from an ergonomical
standpoint I’m not the right one to judge :)
- I've made a couple of comparisons of different keyboards:
https://sourceforge.net/p/qwpr/wiki/Comparison/ and
„ç“ and „ñ“ are actually included in Neo (dead keys). See above.
Cheers,
Daniel
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