In DH Mod there are no change of fingers, this is the point. You may also look to the Angle mod, same idea without fingers change for the standard Colemak (it is actually can be applied to the qwerty as well).
Difference between this forum and The Symmetric Typing Project is that the standard keyboard with the standard layout is not a holly cow for us, we all departed from "standard" already :) So keeping standard fingering is seen as more important here than keeping layout untouched. DH mod is developed from standard Colemak using this principle.

I was in a similar place to you - learning Colemak and touch-type at the same time. I also initially used exactly the strategy you propose, i.e using the "wrong" fingers for Z, X, C.

I'd say it's not a bad idea to learn this way, just not the best idea.

The main drawbacks are:
- the B key is very far away and hard to reach.
- it introduces a CT same-finger bigram that Colemak normally should not have.
If you can live with that, then there's no reason why you couldn't go that way. Personally though, as I adapted to Colemak, I found the B be irritating, and I wanted a better solution for it.

The other options are, you could apply the angle mod or a DH mod.

The begin is hard... my 20 wpm writing seems a slow motion video compared to the previous 50/60 wpm :(

And I keep doing a lot of errors, that "s" :|

I see!

Mhh... I  intalled the standard Colemak, where can I find information about the ALT GR layer?

That is:

ALT GR + e -> é
ALT GR + ` + ` -> ~~

Be aware that there are other AltGr options. In my sig topic you'll find Colemak[eD] which I feel works a lot better for me at least.

Standard Colemak AltGr mappings work, but in my opinion they are suboptimal and there's a lot of missed opportunities there.

Okay, just ask and we'll get through this, nessun' problemo! :-)

I couldn't see your link (it's better to use img tags in square brackets for this forum!) but my "Unified Symbols" solution for Italian Colemak[eD] is this:

Also, note this (nominally for Spanish but an alternative for Italian too I think – maybe change Ññ for èé!?) if you like the idea of accent dead keys:

    Spanish (Spain and Latin America) 'Unified Symbols' Colemak[eD]

What this means, is that the bracket keys are converted to special letter/accent keys, like what is often the case with the standard locale layouts. It's easy enough to get brackets with AltGr if you don't use them often. If you do for programming or suchlike, you can have two layouts with only the brackets different, and switch between them as necessary! The last key I change is the VK_102 key, which is often not used for anything important; if you like, you can leave it as you're used to instead but I think it's nice for this purpose.

Other than that, the base layers are unaffected. Keep in mind that for effective typing of text you want all letters to be readily accessible. Brackets and many other symbols aren't necessary for typing flow in general, unless your text really has a lot of them. But for Italian, you really want a nice accessible è at the very least, and likely also éàìòù. I find that using AltGr for letters in your language gets too clumsy in general! Some are easy to hit (like ç), but more are a little too much of an interruption – especially in capital form! (Well, capital accented letters isn't much of a problem for Italian at least, but still.)

My preferred solution for Windows, is the PortableKeyboardLayout (PKL) program by Farkas Máté. That's what my Big Bag (Windows) topic is describing. For this program, I did actually make both the Spanish and Italian layouts but not with dedicated help images. Also, you have to edit some commented lines in the layout.ini file of the "Colemak-eD-lat_ISO" (or the CurlAngleWide variant if you want that) to activate italian! Example:

;SC01a = OEM_6	4	[	{	*{Esc}	å	Å	; QWERTY [{ ; Cmk-eD_ISO
SC01a = OEM_6	4	dk6	dk13	*{Esc}	[	{	; QWERTY [{ ; Cmk-eD-BeCaFr
;SC01a = OEM_6	4	dk15	dk16	*{Esc}	[	{	; QWERTY [{ ; Cmk-eD-BrPt
;SC01a = OEM_6	4	dk15	dk13	*{Esc}	[	{	; QWERTY [{ ; Cmk-eD-EsLat
;SC01a = OEM_6	4	è	é	*{Esc}	[	{	; QWERTY [{ ; Cmk-eD-It

Here, you would have to move the semicolon away from the "Cmk-eD-It" line and to the "Cmk-eD-BeCaFr" line to get the Italian variant!

PKL is portable software, so you can just run it and it'll work. I put it in my PortableApps folder on my computers, but you can also have it on a USB drive so it's always with you on the move. I have a shortcut in the Startup folder so it starts when Windows starts.

The bad link is due to Dropbox removing its Public folder as you can see in my latest forum topic. It's fixed now, thanks for pointing it out! :-)

Yes, I think you should be well served with two layouts where one has accents directly on the brackets for typing much Italian, and the other one has the brackets on top. You can put the brackets on AltGr for the accent variant and vice versa, to make it simple to remember where everything is. It's simple enough to set a hotkey for layout switching; mine is Ctrl+Shift+2.

You could edit the line yourself, but you could also use the enclosed "Latin" layout and just uncomment the lines for Italian. Keep in mind that you have to choose the right pkl.ini file and edit the layout name/description line in that as well, to make it active. It's not very practical, but it's free. ;-)

If you want to make a MSKLC layout install instead, you could do that but I'd work from a layout that already has the dead keys so you won't have to reproduce every character in them manually in the dead key table! It's not so hard to save a layout as a .klc file and move the dead keys by editing that file before starting it up in MSKLC again for compilation.

The problem with PKL regarding logon is that it won't be running until startup and logon is done. So yes and no, if you install Colemak as your system layout and make it also your logon layout then your logon will happen in Colemak but I use PKL normally so I don't get to do that.

In my main sig topic I describe how my Big Bag is implemented on Linux. It's different technically speaking, but mostly with the same end results.

I'm using this method (the dead keys on the brackets keys). I works fine for me!

The only problem is that the right pinkie is a bit too stressed ... but I think I can handle it. (I don't see any better solution).

I'm a little busy at the moment so I can't try it now... I'll do it in the future!

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A little update on how it is going!

I'm fairly satisfied with the speed tipyng only lower case, without special characters.

(accidentally I erased the statistics some time ago)

The problem is that in real world tipyng I'm much slower.. Upper case, accented chars and special character are a pain.
Probably the problem with the special chars it that they are moved compared to the italian layout which I used...

I'm changing a bit the fingers placement, hoping that learning the special characters is simpler in this way.

With this it should be:

• More confortable to type 4 and 8
• Index fingers should have less work to do, stressing them less