On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 11:37:59AM +0200, Thomas Temp� wrote: > Hello, > > I am still working on the design of my French Dvorak keyboard. > I wish to asy you a question about the "digit" keys in the upper row > of the keyboard. > > The original author insists that it is more ergonomic to have symbols > be immediately accessible on those keys, and to use shift to access > digits. This is a peculiarity of the original (AZERTY) keyboard > layout. > > I myself don't quite agree. I feel that the digits should be > immediately accessible. Both of us seem to be stubborn enough > that we should seek the best solution for this problem.
e.g. Czech and Slovak official layouts have accented letter on those keys, and digits are accessible via shift. I loathe this design, and I am using my self-made layout where there are accented letters on those keys, and shift gives original symbols (!@#$%^&*()). Digits are accessble on numeric keypad, or via AltGr. (I found out that typing numbers when all the digits are in one row is really cumbersome and prone to typos) But, other people do not seem to share my opinion... -- ----------------------------------------------------------- | Radovan Garab�k http://melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk/~garabik/ | | __..--^^^--..__ garabik @ melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk | ----------------------------------------------------------- Antivirus alert: file .signature infected by signature virus. Hi! I'm a signature virus! Copy me into your signature file to help me spread! _______________________________________________ I18n mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/i18n
