Re: [lojban] Re: Lojban keyboard layout

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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 :)
> >
> > oskar
> >    
>
> 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.
>
> Then there's the evolved Lojban keyboard, generated using a
> genetic-programming program someone else wrote that works on keyboard layouts:
>
> W H Y S F G V ' N M / =
> I O A E U D C L Z J -
>  Q , ; B . P T K R X 
>
> ...except that keyboard is kind of weird in places, like having Z on the
> home row and not T.
>  

Q? W? H? (Should be the shifted apostrophe, if anything at all). Why a 
dash? And the dot demoted away from the home row? What sort of Lojban 
text was used to evolve this layout, I wonder. It makes more sense for 
Klingon.

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