In a message dated 2001-10-02 22:04:41 Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>> I still live in hopes that someone, John or someone else, will one >> day send me a Deseret keyboard layout that is at least SLIGHTLY >> standard (meaning more than one person has ever used it). >> >> I need something I can download and read on a Windows machine. >> Text or a GIF would be fine. > > I have a hard time picturing what such a layout would *look* like... what > the heck would someone who uses the language expect, anyway? :-) Well, careful now. The language is English. You mean "someone who uses the script." I tried creating a Deseret keyboard for (and with) SC UniPad, using the Dvorak keyboard layout as a loose model. By that I do not at all mean that I mapped Latin letters on the Dvorak keyboard to "equivalent" Deseret letters, but rather that I put the most common letters (as determined from a large chunk of text in Deseret) on the home row and relegated the least common letters to Alt+Gr (Ctrl+Alt) combinations. The biggest problem, of course, is that there are 38 of the buggers and so these Alt+Gr combinations are necessary. My keyboard is all right, I guess, but it is completely my own invention and I really know nothing about the engineering that goes into proper keyboard design. I'd feel better with something designed by someone who had a clue, and/or something that has seen some actual use. Not that there are an awful lot of users, mind you. -Doug Ewell Fullerton, California
