At 10:24 -0400 2004-07-26, Alain LaBont� wrote:
In less pedantic terms:
a standard American keyboard layout is by
itself a keyboard group composed of two levels
(one unshifted, one shifted).
a European national keyboard is by itself in
general a keyboard group composed of three
levels (one unshifted, one shifted, one obtained
with AltGr).
And everyone who has used a Macintosh has been used to:
plain
shifted
alt
alt-shifted
for twenty years. And that means US and European keyboard layouts.
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Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com