I just ran across this set and I really like it. I don't know if it's too late to talk about changes, but I just wanted to make a couple of suggestions:
- Could you add an R2 [;] (Greek question mark) key to the Greek monolegends set, without the Q on it? It would be really nice to be able to make a fully Greek layout without a random Q on it spoiling the effect ;-)
- ISO Support seems like you would need to have two [\ _] keys on the same board. I'm not sure exactly how an actual Greek keyboard is laid out; one picture I found on the internet had a [< >] key on R4, so maybe that would be a better choice?
- This is a stretch, but polytonic accent keys would be nice. That is: R1 [῏], [῍]; R2: [~], [`] (Grave accent); R3 [᾿] (Note this is a smooth breathing mark, not an apostrophe); and R4 [῎] (This is a single character)
The Greek national layout is rather different from what we're used to seeing on English keyboards, either the older stuff, as in this Model M keyboard:
or the (presumably) still in vigour standard:
So, if this set is going to go with the fundamental design concept of an English (US) national layout with Greek letters
instead of the Latin letters A-Z, while keeping numbers and symbols unaltered, the semicolon ought to remain in what is generally speaking the
;: key, as it is already.
Now, given that the Q keycap would remain unaltered and would look quite out of place, a few alternatives could be considered:
- The (modern) layout places the middot ("·", U+00b7) and long dash ("―", U+2015) symbols in the Q keycap.
- If putting both symbols looks weird, perhaps putting only the middot might be an option.
- Or... the sampi letter ("ϡ", U+03e0) could be placed there instead of the "Q"; no one would confuse sampi with a Latin letter, and you kinda need it to write Greek numerals, too.
(or not)
