Re: COLEMAK layout?

Craig Richmond <[email protected]>
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Craig

At 9:19 +0000 16/11/08, tobydickenson wrote:
>--- 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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