Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 06:46:07 +0100 (GMT/BST)
From: Digby Tarvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Repair my Lib50
>
> As it happens, that one was off an english keyboard...I have on uk and one
> us keyboard on working machines and (I'll probably get sacked for this) I
> reckon the us keyboard is better on the lib - the uk has too many keys on
> the bottom row and I keep missing the damn space bar!
>
Here here!
I quite agree. Not only is the space bar way too small, but I prefer the
US layout anyway. '#' is an important key used for shell comments, C
pre-processor directives and all sorts of other things. Moving it for
a useless pound symbol (which I almost never use, as tex requires '\pound'
to insert the appropriate symbol into a document) is pure idiocy.
I have long since resigned myself to using the US keymap settings and
just ignoring the printing on the key caps, even though it does occasionally
get confusing. But the alternative was confusing anyway when I plugged in
an external keyboard - all of which are US style. Keyboards layout is
definately one of the few items where I prefer the US convention to that
of the UK,
Pity the standard '$' wasn't adopted as the symbol for the Euro, which
might have alleviated some the the keyboard confusion, rather than
giving us another key that no doubt will find its way onto European
keyboars. Canada, America, Australia and New Zealand all seem to use
the same symbol (and the name 'dollar') without any resultant confusion.
And the word 'dollar' originated in Europe anyway.
Of course my other gripe is the proliferation of barnacles in the
form of microsoft specific keys that are creeping onto current
keyboards. The keyboard I usually carry with me when travelling with
my libretto is
http://www.pfuca.com/products/hhkb/hhkbindex.html
If anyone canibalising a 100CT for parts finds themselves with a
leftover US keyboard, let me know what you want for it....
Regards,
DigbyT
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Digby R. S. Tarvin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.cthulhu.dircon.co.uk
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