Re: OT...but perhaps of interest

[Jeff Blakeney <CUTjblakeney@sympatico.ca>]

On 2 Apr 2005 22:15:32 -0800, skearney@accessbee.com wrote:

>But suppose you just want to transpose dfjk with etni, does your
>operating system allow you to remap keys?  While I would like to learn
>Dvorak, it is just too big of a change.  I can really feel the boost
>that having etni on the home keys gives me, you could call it the
>cowards Dvorak.

If I was going to learn to touch type with a different layout I would
go with Dvorak.  No real point in learning a layout that practically
no one else uses.

In fact, I was going to teach myself to touch type with the Dvorak
layout many years ago when I first got my IIgs as it is just a control
panel setting to change the keyboard to the Dvorak layout.  However,
upon thinking about it further, I figured I would never get very good
at touch typing with Dvorak and my QWERTY touch typing would suffer
because I would only really be able to use the Dvorak layout on my
machine at home.  Whenever I used someone else's machine, I'd most
likely not have the option to change the layout so I never bothered to
learn the Dvorak layout.

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