Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site utai.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcsri!utai!lamy From: lamy@utai.UUCP (Francois Lamy) Newsgroups: net.internat Subject: Re: Brackets Message-ID: <1717@utai.UUCP> Date: Mon, 26-May-86 10:59:16 EDT Article-I.D.: utai.1717 Posted: Mon May 26 10:59:16 1986 Date-Received: Mon, 26-May-86 11:30:53 EDT Reply-To: lamy@utai.UUCP (Jean-Francois Lamy) Organization: CSRI, University of Toronto Lines: 60 In article <29800005@ccvaxa> aglew@ccvaxa.UUCP writes: >matching brackets on adjacent keys, near to each other. The keyboards that >... >start off right, but putting < and > above , and . breaks the pattern (and, Hmmm... , and . being adjacent on my keyboard, it follows that < and > are, too. >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). For balanced quotation marks I would go for compose-' and compose-` (are there distinct glyphs for `` and '' in ISO latin 1?) My personal choice for French guillemets would be compose-< for << and compose-> for >>. The following layout allows for adjacency in both cases: "ascii mode" "french mode" (compose key depressed in "wp" (compose key depressed in "programming" mode) mode) --------------- --------------- |backsp |delete | |backsp |delete | | | | | | | ---------------------- ---------------------- | { | } | | | | | e" | u^ | i^ | | | [ | ] | \ | | | e^ | a^ | o^ | | ------------------ | ------------------ | | : | " | ~ | return | | : | " | u` | return | | ; | ' | ` | | | ; | e` | a` | | --------------------------------- --------------------------------- | < | > | ? | shift | lf | | << | >> | c, | shift | lf | | , | . | / | | | | , | . | e' | | | --------------------------------- --------------------------------- | control | compose | | control | compose | | | | | | | --------------------------------- --------------------------------- (The French layout is completely arbitrary, except for c, and e', which are in the same place as on a French-Canadian typewriter, if I am not mistaken) Since there is no agreement for the placement of "alien :-)" characters, I chose to put them all at the same place, where they would be easy to hunt and peck. I do not mind the three keys between "L" and return, if return is big enough to be hit with boxing gloves. This layout puts back where it belongs, left of 1, and also allows for symmetrical and keys, on both side of the space bar. -- Jean-Francois Lamy CSNet: lamy@ai.toronto.csnet Department of Computer Science EAN: lamy@ai.toronto.cdn University of Toronto ARPA: lamy%ai.toronto.csnet@csnet-relay Toronto, Ontario UUCP: {ihnp4,decvax,decwrl,uw-beaver} M5S 1A4 !utcsri!utai!lamy