So I am using a planck-style 48 keys keyboard at present. I like it enough to give that concept a real try.
The only thing that is getting on my nerves at present is programming it. I used ISO-DE keyboards for about 95% of the time in the last thirty years.
I did manage to find workarounds and concepts to accommodate nearly all the keys I need. But here's what grinds my gears: I can't find a way to get certain keys that seem to be specific to the German keyboard. The one I miss most is the key that's left of right shift. On German boards, that's a minus and when shift-pressed it becomes an underscore.
I don't know if I'm following the right path. To program my keyboard, I boot my machine in Windows, visit
https://config.qmk.fm/ Import the json file I saved, make the modifications I want to do and download the new layout. Then I disconnect my keyboard and reconnect it, holding down the key that will set it into the qmk mode and then I launch the qmk-toolbox, select my keyboard type and load the new .hex file, then flash the board.
Google searching my problem led me to Github, where the German keycodes are posted(
https://github.com/qmk/qmk_firmware/blob/master/quantum/keymap_extras/keymap_german.h)
but I have no clue in how to get that info from my monitor into my keyboard.
Am I being some special kind of stupid here ? If so, would you care to set my confused self into the right direction?