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Subject: Re: Brackets
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Date: Sun, 25-May-86 18:45:03 EDT
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> While we're on keyboards: I think that a case can be made for putting all
> matching brackets on adjacent keys, near to each other. The keyboards that
> have ("{ [", "} ]") start off right, but putting < and > above , and .
> breaks the pattern...

I think a case can also be made for not changing things so that people whose
fingers have learned where < and > are don't have to retrain themselves.
The case for moving < and > is not much stronger than the case for switching
to the Dvorak keyboard, and there doesn't seem to be much motion in that
direction; it would be costly to retrain everybody who touch-types.

> While we're at it, where should properly formed left and right quotation
> marks be put, or, if not on the keyboard, how should they be generated?
> (no, back-quote and single quote do not always match).

If you're referring to the ASCII "`" and "'" characters, put them where
almost everybody else puts them.  Put double-quote and "'" on a key to the
right of ": ;", and put "~" and "`" on a key up on the top row.
-- 
	Guy Harris
	{ihnp4, decvax, seismo, decwrl, ...}!sun!guy
	guy@sun.arpa