--- In qalam@yahoogroups.com, "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@...>
wrote:
and the "accent-first" system, though perhaps

> counterintuitive, is preferable for a number of reasons. This was a
> finding of Lloyd Anderson, who some of you may know is seriously

into

> ergonomics.

Interesting. What were Anderson's reasons?

I was having fun teaching the polytonic Greek Unicode keyboard to a
friend and found that the different combinations of accents and
breathing was possible to memorize but took a bit of time. (However,
it was sensational to input and display in interlinear fashion
Greek, English, French and Hebrew all on one page!)

From an article on the SIL website about African keyboards I thought
that it was considered easier, more intuitive, to key in the vowel
first and the diacritic, (with ZWJ) second, more like handwriting,
but most keyboards require a dead keystroke first, then the vowel
with the diacritic displays.

Suzanne McCarthy