thanks for the info
the layout that i've put on my website conforms
fully to the unicode standard .. which in turn
incorporates the ISCII standard
so the 'convenience' is not using a mouse only
the 'convenience' is that the virtual keys can be
placed in any position on the 4 cornered outline
or box .. the shifing of the keys for a aa i ii u uu
will make it clear
in unicode, or iscii, the letters fall on the keys like this :
QWERT <== 1st row on the kebboard
ou ai aa ii uu
and
ASDFG <== 2nd row on the keyboard
o e a i u
the matras appear when the lower case is used
(i guess you already are fully aware of this and
are already using for the bangla translation)
the question naturally is .. that the sequence from
left to right is 'wrong' .. not in logical order
so what i have done is put the keys in logical order
in english keys it translates to :
DFGSA which will give the letters <== 2nd row on the keyboard
a i u e o but appearing on
the 1st row
in my layout
ERTWQ which will give the letters : <== 1st row on the keyboard
aa ii uu ai ou but appearing on the
2nd
in my layout
this JUXTAPOSITION of the rows of the keys and
this juxtaposition of the keys left to right position
THAT is what is the logical difference from the normal h/w keyboard layout
not to mention that there is NO such longitudinal keyboard which
resembles our varnaavali the way we learnt it in school primary books
so, whether mouse is used or not, the keyboard layout design is what
is being put up for comments, suggestions ..
this is NOT a normal keyboard layout .. and is not available in the market
as a hardware keyboard either .. but IS this the way it SHOULD be ..
the hardware keyboard too ? for use by indian users ?
i have another very compact layout in mind too .. where only the
vowels, matras, consonants will figure, the rest of the keys, like
numbers, arrows, home/pgup/pgdn/end/del/ins/shift/alt/ctrl/numlk
+-*/ F1 to F12, backspace, return(enter), tab, spacebar,esc will
NOT appear on the virtual keyboard layout .. those keys need
not be relocated and the present < Rs.100 keyboards are ok
ONLY the juxtaposing alphabets need to be shifted to the
virtual keyboard
The present layout is only for logical correctness/propriety
the compact layout will be for quick typing using 10 fingers
end of lecture
begin comments ;-)
..peekay
(be good)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sayamindu Dasgupta" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2004 9:26 AM
Subject: Re: [ilug-cal] Fw: hindi keyboard layout
On Mon, 2004-08-02 at 19:06 -0800, peekay wrote:
> oops .. here's the url :
>
> http://www.sharmas.com/virtualkeyboardhindi/layout2004.08.01.jpg
I remember seeing something like this at Bangalore (was called TapaTap
or PaTaPaT - or something like that).
It was designed for use in handhelds (less screen area) - so what they
did was, they put the lesser used chars inside an expander - tap on that
expander, those characters slid over the other ones.
We have been trying out a software called Dasher, which can also be used
for input with a mouse (or some other non keyboard like device). A
really cool demo of the English version of Dasher can be seen at
http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/djw30/dasher/dasher.gif (do take a
look), and we are trying to get it to support Bangla.
-sdg-
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