I have been looking at Carpalx
http://mkweb.bcgsc.ca/carpalx/?home fully optimised layouts
http://mkweb.bcgsc.ca/carpalx/?full_optimization , and like the ideas, but I have one request —
Their fully optimised layout switches p and ;
I suggest (slightly) more aggressive switching of punctuation.
Acknowledging their model of base effort
http://mkweb.bcgsc.ca/carpalx/?typing_effort “BASE EFFORT IS FINGER TRAVEL DISTANCE”
— where qwerty b has an effort of 3.5, qwerty y an effort of 3.0, while qwerty ;: and qwerty /? have an effort of 0.0 and 2.0 respectively, I am interested in layouts that place qwerty ;: on qwerty b and qwerty /? on qwerty y ... and then I have requests that will generate four different layouts.
Option 1: all letter keys free to migrate (after ;: and /? swap with b and y)
a) ,< and .> in qwerty position
b) ,< and .> shifted one key to the right
Option 2: zxcv fixed in qwerty position
a) ,< and .> in qwerty position
b) ,< and .> shifted one key to the right
In my opinion those layouts would make moderately good use of standard qwerty keyboards. Comparing scores for these four layouts would help determine whether it is worth disrupting zxcv, or shifting ,< and .> to the right.
However ... I have been using linux for 18 months, and have no programming experience, and I am not going to dive in to programming and using the Carpalx perl script optimiser if I don't have to. I wondered if someone here would be able to calculate those layouts easily with their existing experience, using Carpalx default settings, and post them.
If nobody does within a few months then I may have to learn how to run perl scripts and do it myself... haha
Regards