Message-Id: <199709302349.SAA25912@locke.ccil.org> Reply-To: Edward Cherlin Date: Tue Sep 30 18:49:52 1997 Sender: Lojban list From: Edward Cherlin Subject: Dvorak keyboard (was Re: Simple Lojban questions) X-To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu To: John Cowan In-Reply-To: <199709291555.IAA27127@unagi.cybernothing.org> X-Mozilla-Status: 0001 Content-Length: 846 X-From-Space-Date: Tue Sep 30 18:49:52 1997 X-From-Space-Address: LOJBAN@CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU At 8:54 AM -0700 9/29/97, John E. Clifford wrote: [snip] >Letter count. Something like this was done for the basic words -- gismu and >cmavo -- but nothing for running text, so far as I have seen. Dvorak >keyboards will almost certainly not be particularly advantageous in Lojban. > Nor much of a problem neither. I use Dvorak except when I am on other people's systems and am not allowed to change their settings. It does nothing to help with consonants in Lojban, but having the vowels on the home row under one hand is certainly an advantage over QWERTY, French AZERTY, and so on. V'V is a bit clumsy, though. -- Edward Cherlin, President Help outlaw Spam by supporting Rep. Chris Smith's bill and opposing the other bills supported by the spammers