From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Sun Jan 11 18:03:34 2004 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Sun, 11 Jan 2004 18:03:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.30) id 1AfrQP-0002wL-7r for lojban-list@lojban.org; Sun, 11 Jan 2004 18:03:29 -0800 Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2004 18:03:29 -0800 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: Lojban keyboard layout Message-ID: <20040112020329.GH2005@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org References: <20040112002945.GB31364@mit.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040112002945.GB31364@mit.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 6970 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 07:29:45PM -0500, Rob Speer wrote: > On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 11:45:03PM +0000, oskar2379 wrote: > > I have two questions: Which layout do you think works with > > lojban the best? Has anybody put any thought into building a > > lojban keyboard layout? You are a group willing to learn a whole > > to language, so learning a whole new keyboard arrangement > > shouldn't be a stretch :) > > There's been a thread before about whether QWERTY or Dvorak works > better with Lojban. Dvorak because the idea of putting all the > vowels in one place still works, and QWERTY because Dvorak moves ' > out of the way. Doesn't bother me much, for the record. Then again, you find me *anyone* whose main bottleneck in typing Lojban is the *keyboard*, and I'll be absolutely stunned. That includes Nick (no offense, Nick). -Robin -- Me: http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** I'm a *male* Robin. "Constant neocortex override is the only thing that stops us all from running out and eating all the cookies." -- Eliezer Yudkowsky http://www.lojban.org/ *** .i cimo'o prali .ui