Re: Degaspregos

On Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 12:35:12PM -0500, Christopher B Wright wrote:
> First, you have about 35 letters. That means you have to make digraphs in
> plenty and perhaps use some diacritical marks, both of which I try to
> limit. Either it makes typing long ("is that alt+0235, or alt+0233?"), or
> it makes the word uglier since it contains punctuation marks.
Or you can temporaily remap your key; the keypad has 10 keys that are
rarely used, or you can canabalize the number row. If you use consistent
diacritics, one dead key can make a world of difference - i.e. a dead
diaresis means you can type any character with a diaresis as dead
diaresis + "base" character. It's really not that bad; the Vietnamese
have about 90 characters (vowels + tone marks, mostly) and they survive.

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