Hi!

"Nicholas Bodley" <nbodley@...> writes:

> [...]
> > One, concerned with old Cyrillic retters, deleted a number of them
> [...]
>
> Ah, the joys of the Dvorak layout. R and L are right next to each other,
> significantly increasing the likelihood of inadvertent, seeming spoofs of
> the difficulties some people from Asia have with English.

Funny -- when I got my Dvorak keyboard, one of the first things to do
was to swap 'L' and ';' since I felt 'L' was too far away for my
fingers to reach it easily. So I never encountered those types^H^Hos.
But the last word in the previous sentence is a good example for typos
that happen due to all vowels being next to each other...

I also tend to type 'nat' instead of 'not' (which I especially dislike
because it looks like I'm trying to stress unrounded pronunciation of
the vowel).

Anyway, it's good to switch to a *completely* different layout, since
the brain is virgin wrt. to the new layout and you can optimise the
layout for your special typing habbits without pain. I mean, without
*additional* pain -- it really was a bit of a pain to finally reach
fluency with the new layout again. But now the keys are perfectly
suited for typing English, German, C, C++, Perl, Latex, Shell and
Lisp. :-)

I have most symbols on AltGr + letter, so they are easily reachable
without stretching fingers. A funny thing is that $%#@ are right next
to each other on AltGr + MWVZ -- so this looks like the Perl 'vowels'
row...

**Henrik