From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Well, careful now. The language is English. You mean "someone who uses the > script."
Yes, that is what I meant... I was referring to users of the script. Though I suppose if they were going to try to tackle the original inner and outer plates it would not be English but that ne'er-well-defined Hebrew written with Egyptian heiroglyphs? :-) > I tried creating a Deseret keyboard for (and with) SC UniPad, using the > Dvorak keyboard layout as a loose model. By that I do not at all mean that I > mapped Latin letters on the Dvorak keyboard to "equivalent" Deseret letters, > but rather that I put the most common letters (as determined from a large > chunk of text in Deseret) on the home row and relegated the least common > letters to Alt+Gr (Ctrl+Alt) combinations. The biggest problem, of course, > is that there are 38 of the buggers and so these Alt+Gr combinations are > necessary. Yes, very much so. Seems kind of unwieldy using a keyboard, unless someone who actually uses the language gave some frequency data on where THEY wanted keys... > My keyboard is all right, I guess, but it is completely my own invention and > I really know nothing about the engineering that goes into proper keyboard > design. I'd feel better with something designed by someone who had a clue, > and/or something that has seen some actual use. Not that there are an awful > lot of users, mind you. Well, you could always ask them, I suppose? :-) MichKa Michael Kaplan Trigeminal Software, Inc. http://www.trigeminal.com/
