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Re: OT: Dvorak keyboard layout

From:And Rosta <a.rosta@...>
Date:Sunday, February 2, 2003, 12:20
TristanS
> On 2003.02.02 06:54 And Rosta wrote: > > How do you cope with the problem of moving between different physical > > keyboards? Even alternating between different qwerty variants is very > > very disruptive, and having to alternate between dvorak and qwerty > > wd be catastrophic. But being always able to use dvorak wd be Good > > I imagine that because the different qwerty variants are so similar, > you're more likely to get interference than with dvorak and qwerty. I > can touch-type on either, though I'm faster on dvorak (because I'm more > used to it), and make more mistakes with punctation on qwerty (like > typing W for comma). On the other hand, I keep mixing up R and L on > dvorak (the keys occupy the same places as the O and P keys on qwerty) > > On the other hand, I try to avoid qwerty as much as I can because once > you've got used to dvorak, you realise it actually hurts
rt [[ C-nn ypf cy & rb frgp d.ae x. cy! ok -- I'll try it & on your head be it! but after 20 years of touch typing, dvoraking this is EXCRUCIATING!!! [[Abev --And.

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