no no no.... you misunderstood me. I dont intend to change
the hardware, just the keyboard mapping to something that
has nothing to do with the roman representation of the
sounds that shavian represents. There are 26 letters that
are characters in roman. The shift key would become a kind
of "flip" key. Let's just assume that one put all of the
deep letters on the top row--ignore the roman letters up
there, this is just a different idea of mapping--then when
the shift key is pressed, it makes a deep letter into a
tall letter. For instances "q" would be "bib" while "Q"
would be the voiceless "peep" or vice-versa. This is not a
hardware change.
Also, this would leave two buttons which is equal to four
characters, let's say that we map shavian characters to
every letter but z and x. That leaves z, Z, x, and X open
for "whitewheat," or the namer dot, or whatever else.
Why should we be trying to fit the Shavian character set to
the roman alphabet that we are trying to rid ourselves of?
If the alphabet were done this way, that is, make the shift
key "flip" the letter or change it into its pair, then
typing speed would increase--I'm sure of it!
--Star
--- pvandenbrink11 <pvandenbrink11@...> wrote:
> Hi Star Raven
> Of course it would be better.
> But it is a lot less expensive and time consuming to
> change software
> rather than hardware.
> We don't have enough people interested in Shaw to make it
> comercially
> feasible to build and sell new hardware.
> First things, first.
> Regards, Paul Vandenbrink
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> --- In shavian@y..., Star Raven <celestraof12worlds@y...>
> wrote:
> > I'm not very good at alphabet design or keyboard
> mapping,
> > therefore I have not been able to do this myself, but
> > perhaps someone out there will consider this:
> >
> > If you are using shavian, would it not be better to
> have a
> > keyboard that types in shavian without having to
> > recode/decode the letters from the Roman alphabet? If
> you
> > had, let's say, for instance, the top row of keys,
> > qwertyuiop as the deep letters, and then when you press
> the
> > shift key, they become the tall letters. Thus you can
> take
> > 48 characters and make them into 24 keys on the roman
> > keyboard. Hitting the shift key is not a problem, if it
> is
> > set up so that it makes sense to do so.
> >
> > Would this not work?
> >
> > --Star
> >
> >
> >
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