Re: COLEMAK layout?

"tobydickenson" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.hardware.altkeyboards
Message-ID <[email protected]>
--- In [email protected], "Chuck Esterbrook"
<Chuck.Esterbrook@...> wrote:
>
> Someone *did* try designing a better Dvorak using computers. If I
> remember correctly, they combined data with evolutionary computation
> and came up with the same layout. Wish I had the URL handy. Does
> anyone know what I'm talking about?

It was at http://www.visi.com/~pmk/evolved.html, but that URL is 404 now.

ericsc4 wrote:

>     * Some punctuation (in particular the curly/square brackets) is
> less comfortable to type on Dvorak. This affects mainly programmers
> and advanced Unix users.

Ive been using Dvorak since 2003. The punctuation positions bugged me too.
Not just the square brackets, but the rest of the punctuation taken from the
US standard layout. There is now a "Dvorak letter position, UK punctuation
positions" in the latest xorg, and a corresponding windows map can be
downloaded from http://www.tarind.com/ukdvorak.html.
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