From nicholas@uci.edu Mon Aug 13 00:29:41 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: nicholas@uci.edu X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_3_1); 13 Aug 2001 07:29:41 -0000 Received: (qmail 8014 invoked from network); 13 Aug 2001 07:29:41 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by m8.onelist.org with QMQP; 13 Aug 2001 07:29:41 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO e4e.oac.uci.edu) (128.200.222.10) by mta3 with SMTP; 13 Aug 2001 07:29:41 -0000 Received: from [128.195.186.65] (dialin53a-55.ppp.uci.edu [128.195.186.65]) by e4e.oac.uci.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA20719 for ; Mon, 13 Aug 2001 00:29:40 -0700 (PDT) X-Sender: nicholas@e4e.oac.uci.edu Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2001 21:21:27 -0700 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: keyboard letterals (was: New to lojban, any suggestions?) From: Nick Nicholas Says Jay: >> Note: Shift is taubu, Caps Lock is ga'ebu. I hope I'm not insane enough to >> come up with equivalents of the other keys of the keyboard... >Hrm, seems like it might be a good idea for someone to do so, though... >! = ba'ebu >@ judri.bu is the only sensible one these days. >* = tarci.bu (or asterik.bu) Could but won't be pinka.bu { } [ ] I referred to these generically in the intro to the lessons as stura.bu, I think. That doesn't help, though. >\ >/ Can't base this on division, that's the obelus (the primary school maths one.) >: lau lidne bu, following its use as an introductory? relmokca conflicts with umlaut. >; jufrypau.bu, or denpa joi ki'o bu >' .y'y >. = ? (ibu would be nice, but its taken) has already been defined as denpa.bu, and , as slaka.bu >backspace = sibu (si is probably outside of the grammar enough that sibu >would cause problems, though) Indeed. Besides, you'd need to distinguish delete and backspace, and the scope of deletion is only a single letter. Delete is vimcu.bu; backspace is actually functionally equivalent to left arrow, but can be fa'ebu >Good words for ctrl and alt elude me. I'm thinking maybe galfi.bu xi PA, >though. (To take into account the very rare keyboards which more modifiers >than ctrl and alt) I'd want to say minde.bu for Ctrl, drata.bu for Option/Alt, and vonpezli.bu for the Mac Clover. Space: kunti bu Tab: sotkunti bu This will end up on Wiki, but not by me tonight. If someone gets to it before me, please link it under 'mulgau' rather than 'stika'. Nick Nicholas, TLG, UCI, USA. nicholas@uci.edu www.opoudjis.net "Most Byzantine historians felt they knew enough to use the optatives correctly; some of them were right." --- Harry Turtledove.