Date: Thu, 9 Oct 1997 10:54:21 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199710091554.KAA29516@locke.ccil.org> Reply-To: bob@rattlesnake.com Sender: Lojban list From: bob@MEGALITH.RATTLESNAKE.COM Subject: Re: {le logjji batkyta'o morna} logical keyboard layouts To: george.foot@merton.oxford.ac.uk Cc: lojban@CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU In-Reply-To: (message from George Foot on Thu, 9 Oct 1997 12:58:33 +0100 (BST)) X-Mozilla-Status: 0011 Content-Length: 1262 Lines: 35 This is probably the only change that could be made without disrupting people's typing too much; since the apostrophe sounds almost like an H anyway it's not that great a change IMHO. Of course, no OS supports it ;). GNU/Linux supports different keyboards. Indeed, it already supports not only the regular Dvorak layout but also the left and right Dvorak layouts for one handed typists. This is useful both for amputees and for people who need to control a second device while typing. All in all, my system has 57 different layouts in its `keytables' directory, starting with German Amiga layout and ending with a US layout. (I use the `emacs2' layout, which turns the caps lock into a control key and does other useful things.) It should not be hard to adapt /usr/share/keytables/dvorak.map to your newly invented /usr/share/keytables/lojban.map (See http://www.debian.org/ for info on GNU/Linux. Since the software is sold competitively, you can buy multi-gigabyte distributions in the US on CD-ROM for under $15.) -- Robert J. Chassell bob@rattlesnake.com 25 Rattlesnake Mountain Road bob@ai.mit.edu Stockbridge, MA 01262-0693 USA (413) 298-4725