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taking advantage of a Japanese built-in laptop keyboard
davkol:
The pictured layout is Topre Realforce 91U with rather randomly assigned key symbols/functions. I'd love to use it, but my Phantom has incorrectly split right Shift, and I haven't bothered to get a proper Japanese keyboard for the most part. Thus, I have only one-column gap between (QWERTY) G and H.
I prefer to avoid the punctuation keys in general, and put those symbols on a layer instead (that's why I got the idea with diamond arrows, because I don't like to use those keys while typing). That layout with large modifiers helps: I have a pair of easily accessible AltGraph keys.
tp4tissue:
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jacobolus:
--- Quote from: davkol on Thu, 22 June 2017, 14:39:42 ---I'd love to use it, but my Phantom has incorrectly split right Shift, and I haven't bothered to get a proper Japanese keyboard for the most part.
--- End quote ---
As in you’re stuck with the ISO gigantic right shift + far away enter + stupidly small left shift combo?
Yeah, whoever came up with the physical ISO keyboard layout was crazy, and not in a good way.
jacobolus:
As an example, a Malt-like layout might look something like:
http://www.keyboard-layout-editor.com/#/gists/fc5eb2199e1ba217c0433bbcf35f505f
davkol:
--- Quote from: jacobolus on Thu, 22 June 2017, 17:55:02 ---
--- Quote from: davkol on Thu, 22 June 2017, 14:39:42 ---I'd love to use it, but my Phantom has incorrectly split right Shift, and I haven't bothered to get a proper Japanese keyboard for the most part.
--- End quote ---
As in you’re stuck with the ISO gigantic right shift + far away enter + stupidly small left shift combo?
--- End quote ---
Nah. The right Shift is split like on ANSI HHKB; the left Shift is like on ISO, but both plate and PCB support swapping those two keys, i.e., I can get a 1.25u inner key and 1u outer key, which is something I might do in the future. I do use only the one-column split.
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