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A keyboard layout for conlangers

14 mentions on Hacker News by 1 person: 0 stories, 14 comments · first 2021-03-21 · latest 2024-07-02

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  1. I made my own cross-platform keyboard layout for this: https://github.com/bradrn/Conkey . The compose key is nice, but especially on Windows, I find that an actual keyboard layout gives a better experience.
    comment by bradrn · 2024-07-02 · in The history of Alt+number sequences
  2. …marks and mathematical symbols, originally for Windows but subsequently ported to Linux and Mac [ https://github.com/bradrn/Conkey ] • A ‘sound change applier’ for my hobby of language construction, to simulate the process of historical…
    comment by bradrn · 2023-12-13 · in Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?
  3. …Mac versions to any other base layout, since they’re autogenerated from the Windows version. [0] https://github.com/bradrn/Conkey
    comment by bradrn · 2023-11-03 · in I designed my own keyboard layout. Was it worth it?
  4. …can agree on a nice design. Everyone just has their own unique preferred way of doing things. [0] https://github.com/bradrn/Conkey [1] https://github.com/bradrn/brassica
    comment by bradrn · 2022-11-13 · in Ask HN: What are your “scratch own itch” projects?
  5. …the latest Emacs. Ah well, it’s at least fairly rare that this becomes a problem in practice.) [0] https://github.com/bradrn/Conkey [1] https://github.com/rolandwalker/unicode-fonts
    comment by bradrn · 2022-07-30 · in An accentuated Emacs experiment (à la macOS)
  6. …For non-web documents, however, I always use LaTeX in all but a small number of situations. [0] https://github.com/bradrn/Conkey
    comment by bradrn · 2021-08-17 · in Rustdoc résumé
  7. …another format. (I actually ended up making a tool to translate from MSKLC to M17N format [1].) [0] https://github.com/bradrn/Conkey [1] https://github.com/bradrn/Conkey/tree/master/ms2mim
    comment by bradrn · 2021-08-14 · in WinCompose – A Compose Key for Windows
  8. …US, but added a bunch of dead keys on the AltGr layer. So e.g. ⟨ď⟩ is ‘G-% d’; ⟨ɐ⟩ is ‘G-f a’. [0] https://github.com/bradrn/Conkey
    comment by bradrn · 2021-08-14 · in WinCompose – A Compose Key for Windows
  9. I agree! This is exactly what I ended up doing: https://github.com/bradrn/Conkey
    comment by bradrn · 2021-08-14 · in WinCompose – A Compose Key for Windows
  10. …layout. (Indeed we can already see the start of this process in Julia, Raku and Haskell.) [0] https://github.com/bradrn/Conkey
    comment by bradrn · 2021-06-27 · in Sir, Please Step Away from the ASR-33 (2010)
  11. …[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AltGr_key#Finnish_multilingual [2] https://keyman.com/ [3] https://github.com/bradrn/Conkey
    comment by bradrn · 2021-04-09 · in Why keyboard shortcuts don't work on non-US layouts and how devs could fix it
  12. …specifically to port Conkey to OSX, but should be entirely usable for other purposes as well. [0] https://github.com/bradrn/Conkey [1] https://github.com/akamchinjir/osxkb
    comment by bradrn · 2021-04-04 · in A Mathematical Keyboard Layout (2018)
  13. I wrote myself a very similar keyboard layout a while ago: https://github.com/bradrn/Conkey . It differs in being primarily oriented towards linguistics rather than maths, but I’ve ended up being able to type almost a superset of the same…
    comment by bradrn · 2021-04-04 · in A Mathematical Keyboard Layout (2018)
  14. …though slightly clumsy, are still pretty easy. As an example, see the documentation I wrote for https://github.com/bradrn/Conkey , which makes extremely heavy use of all three features. (As documentation for a keyboard layout, it uses…
    comment by bradrn · 2021-03-21 · in The Design of Forms in Government Departments (1962)