Doug, I suspect that since it was a phonetic spelling system and the writings varied with the writer's pronunciation that individualized keyboard layouts could be a personal preference as well.
Carl > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2001 10:44 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Deseret keyboard (was:Re: Special Type Sorts Tray 2001) > > > 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 >
