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From: jvh@clinet.fi (Jussi-Ville Heiskanen)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: Let's Talk Keyboards!
Message-ID: <1991Apr9.204129.4164@clinet.fi>
Date: 9 Apr 91 20:41:29 GMT
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ham@hpcc01.HP.COM (Bob Hamilton) writes:


>I'd like to see someone invent a keyboard with user-positionable keys
>(i.e. the key can be placed in the slot of the user's choice, and
>emits its identity when typed).

This reminds me...

I've been meaning to ask about the Dworak keyboard. Now it would 
certainly seem that it is language-dependent. So the question is
what is the method for determining the optimal keyboard (dworak or
even better ergonomically if there are inoptimal characteristics 
with dworak) for a given language. I know it has something to do
with letterpairs (or triplets?), but what should the frequency
order be with regard to positioning on the keyboard, exactly?

What languages have already had their dworak' or dworak'' determined?


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