Post by Hooligan on Jul 28, 2009 1:17:49 GMT -6
Fellow Ladintschen --
Using the Windows Keyboard Layout Creator tool thingy, I have created a Windows keyboard layout. If you install it, you'll be among the cool crowd, using it to type el glheþ with ease, no matter what you're doing -- writing a Word document, typing a Witt post, and well, you get the idea.
Here are the differences you will find your keyboard experiencing, compared to the standard U.S. English QWERTY keyboard.
First of all, it's now a QWERTÞ keyboard. Yes, that's right; the letter Y will now type you a þ, and if you capitalize it, it will type a Þ, just as you'd expect.
Where's the Y, you ask? Don't worry. Hold down the right-hand Alt-key (or, if you really like holding things down, you can hold down both the left-hand Alt-key AND the Ctrl key instead), and type the þ key, and you get the Y you would have expected.
Yes, that's right. The right-hand Alt-key is your friend. Use it with any vowel to get an accented version of the thing. Type an A, you get an A, but type a Right-Alt+A, and you get an Á.
What about the umlauted vowels, you ask? Wow, you sure ask a lot of questions. Well, fine, I'll answer them. The three keys to the right of the P (that is, the [, ], and \ keys) are now ä, ö, and ü, respectively. And yep, right-Alting them will get you their stressmarked versions â, ô, and û.
Hey, you say, what about if I want to use pre-Arestada Talossan? Dang, you and your questions. Well, don't worry, those letters are available too, using the standard Ctrl-key shortcuts. Here, I'll show you.
Type Ctrl with the colon, then an e, and you get ë. In fact, this trick works with all the vowels, not just the pre-Arestada ones. So even though you can press the key marked [ and get ä, you can also use Ctrl with the colon, then press the letter a, and get the same thing. And even though you can use the right-Alt key with an a to get á, you can also hold Ctrl with the apostrophe then type an a and get the same á. And of course, using right-Alt with the key marked | would get you a û, or instead you could use Ctrl with the ^ key, then type a u and get the same thing.
In fact, this trick is the only way to get yourself the grave accents. So when you want an à, the way you get it is Ctrl with the ` key (left of the 1), then typing an a.
Remember the right-hand Alt key (or, if you like, Ctrl+Alt)? Of course you do; I just figured I should get in on the whole question-asking thing. Well, in addition to getting you the English letter Y, and the stressmarked version of each vowel, it'll also get you an ð or an Ð if you hold it down and type a d or D. And it'll get you a ç or Ç if you use it with a c or C. And it'll get you a ß if you use it with an s.
Oh, and it will get you an umlauted i if you use it with the letter J. Yep. Don't worry; that makes sense enough to me, and I wrote the book on Talossan.
With those changes, you might wonder where [, ], {, }, |, and \ went. Well, they're around. Use the right-hand Alt key and they'll show up when you type the keys right around that area of the keyboard. I promise. And the ones they'll show up for make enough sense that I'm sure you don't mind. For example, { and } are with the ( and ).
You think that's all? Of course you don't, but again, I'm just trying to catch up with you in terms of questioning things. Right-hand Alt will also get you an upside down question mark or exclamation point when you use it with, well, the question mark or the exclamation point.
Type what you think is a dollar sign and wow -- the Talossan louise symbol. Use the right-hand Alt key with that, and wow -- bence. (The dollar sign is moved to right-hand Alt key with the number 3; deal with it. In fact, all of the number keys can be used with the right-hand Alt-key to get you something; I'll let you go exploring to learn what all I stuck in there.)
Let's see...what else? (That's right -- another rhetorical question.) Well, you might want to know where to get this awesome thingamajig. Just click here and save it and run it and well, there you have it. Install it, use it, pop back and forth between it and your normal keyboard layout to your heart's delight, and let me know what you think of it.
As a longtime typer of the Ctrl with apostrophe, then A to get an Á, I personally am psyched that this complete system, to which my fingers are very accustomed, can now be used not only in Microsoft Word and GoogleTalk (which supports most but not all of it) but in every single program, including typing here in Internet Explorer on Witt!
Estetz Talossan, Taipetz Talossan!
Hooligan
Using the Windows Keyboard Layout Creator tool thingy, I have created a Windows keyboard layout. If you install it, you'll be among the cool crowd, using it to type el glheþ with ease, no matter what you're doing -- writing a Word document, typing a Witt post, and well, you get the idea.
Here are the differences you will find your keyboard experiencing, compared to the standard U.S. English QWERTY keyboard.
First of all, it's now a QWERTÞ keyboard. Yes, that's right; the letter Y will now type you a þ, and if you capitalize it, it will type a Þ, just as you'd expect.
Where's the Y, you ask? Don't worry. Hold down the right-hand Alt-key (or, if you really like holding things down, you can hold down both the left-hand Alt-key AND the Ctrl key instead), and type the þ key, and you get the Y you would have expected.
Yes, that's right. The right-hand Alt-key is your friend. Use it with any vowel to get an accented version of the thing. Type an A, you get an A, but type a Right-Alt+A, and you get an Á.
What about the umlauted vowels, you ask? Wow, you sure ask a lot of questions. Well, fine, I'll answer them. The three keys to the right of the P (that is, the [, ], and \ keys) are now ä, ö, and ü, respectively. And yep, right-Alting them will get you their stressmarked versions â, ô, and û.
Hey, you say, what about if I want to use pre-Arestada Talossan? Dang, you and your questions. Well, don't worry, those letters are available too, using the standard Ctrl-key shortcuts. Here, I'll show you.
Type Ctrl with the colon, then an e, and you get ë. In fact, this trick works with all the vowels, not just the pre-Arestada ones. So even though you can press the key marked [ and get ä, you can also use Ctrl with the colon, then press the letter a, and get the same thing. And even though you can use the right-Alt key with an a to get á, you can also hold Ctrl with the apostrophe then type an a and get the same á. And of course, using right-Alt with the key marked | would get you a û, or instead you could use Ctrl with the ^ key, then type a u and get the same thing.
In fact, this trick is the only way to get yourself the grave accents. So when you want an à, the way you get it is Ctrl with the ` key (left of the 1), then typing an a.
Remember the right-hand Alt key (or, if you like, Ctrl+Alt)? Of course you do; I just figured I should get in on the whole question-asking thing. Well, in addition to getting you the English letter Y, and the stressmarked version of each vowel, it'll also get you an ð or an Ð if you hold it down and type a d or D. And it'll get you a ç or Ç if you use it with a c or C. And it'll get you a ß if you use it with an s.
Oh, and it will get you an umlauted i if you use it with the letter J. Yep. Don't worry; that makes sense enough to me, and I wrote the book on Talossan.
With those changes, you might wonder where [, ], {, }, |, and \ went. Well, they're around. Use the right-hand Alt key and they'll show up when you type the keys right around that area of the keyboard. I promise. And the ones they'll show up for make enough sense that I'm sure you don't mind. For example, { and } are with the ( and ).
You think that's all? Of course you don't, but again, I'm just trying to catch up with you in terms of questioning things. Right-hand Alt will also get you an upside down question mark or exclamation point when you use it with, well, the question mark or the exclamation point.
Type what you think is a dollar sign and wow -- the Talossan louise symbol. Use the right-hand Alt key with that, and wow -- bence. (The dollar sign is moved to right-hand Alt key with the number 3; deal with it. In fact, all of the number keys can be used with the right-hand Alt-key to get you something; I'll let you go exploring to learn what all I stuck in there.)
Let's see...what else? (That's right -- another rhetorical question.) Well, you might want to know where to get this awesome thingamajig. Just click here and save it and run it and well, there you have it. Install it, use it, pop back and forth between it and your normal keyboard layout to your heart's delight, and let me know what you think of it.
As a longtime typer of the Ctrl with apostrophe, then A to get an Á, I personally am psyched that this complete system, to which my fingers are very accustomed, can now be used not only in Microsoft Word and GoogleTalk (which supports most but not all of it) but in every single program, including typing here in Internet Explorer on Witt!
Estetz Talossan, Taipetz Talossan!
Hooligan
