addendum: as an example about what i intend to say about "How smooth is the mouse in the character matrix of Dos?«
In the mentionend »Captain Blackbeard« you could regulate the »Mickeys« of your mouse mouvement or the size of the cursor. You can do this with modern OS of course, and maybe it is too much of a fiddleing inside a text editor, but, just regarding the question of ergonomics: what implications do such things *really* have? (And I know they do have a difference.) Also there is that nice videocast by Jim about changing the FONT in Dos. quite useful for a better reading experience of the text. And things like that. > On 01.02.2024, at 12:50, Thomas Cornelius Desi via Freedos-user > <freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > Hi Eric again! > >> On 01.02.2024, at 12:26, Eric Auer via Freedos-user >> <freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: >> >> >> Hi! >> >>> Why a typewriter? Because where I write, I don’t have electricity (!). >> >> Well there always is sun and photovoltaics... > > sure: actually I was looking for a laptop with FreeDos using a photovoltaic > system… > > (Is there DosBox for iPhones :?? ) - and have more problems later … and costs. > Actually, the only good thing about a typewriter is the fact, that you can > hold sheets on paper with your text on it in your hand. Real stuff! No > »printing« later... > >> >> What type of text input hardware would you like, given that you dislike the >> current style of keyboards? Apart from sliding a pen over an on-screen >> keyboard? Is your goal to enter text quickly? Maybe learn to Velotype :-) >> >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velotype > > I know Velotype, it is quite difficult to learn, like PLOVER or STENO. > But speed is not my goal, rather ergonomics and workflow. > So I created my own keyboard and own layout for Germantexts. Quite different > result from what you know as a keyboard usage. > (When ready I will post a documentation, maybe on Youtube, so you can have a > look.) > > Actually the details of the ingredients are more important: how does the > mouse behave? How smooth is the mouse in the character matrix of Dos? How to > move inside the text document? How does the document react on changings made? > How select text and what to do with selected text? How to integrate it with > the file management? How insert characters with only one hand? (As the other > points at positions…) and so on. You see, it is about the revision stage, the > re-worlking and editing of a Text, not the speed of input. That would not be > a problem, like in live surtitleing or at court procedings etc. > >> >>> Every first letter of a new sentence appears with a lower case letter. >> >> Autocorrect could fix that. > > Actually it didn't. I had Autocorrect and Autocapitalization on - that VIM > app doesn’t do Autocapitalization on beginnings of sentences. Don’t ask my > why! > > ( https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ivim/id1266544660 ) > >> >>> The road map of FreeDOS seems to me include compatibility with advancing >>> storage devices. >>> And USB devices such as printers. Maybe networking. >> >> >> but printers understanding plain text or PDF are easily available. > > This is great info! Thnx! (I was trying with the huge parallel printer cable > on the LPT1 port … - something which has become obsolete on newer machines, > right?) > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
