Hmm, you're quite right. We need a way to programmatically draw pentagrams with only a couple of keystrokes. Shouldn't be too hard. ;)

Okay, the day hath dawned. Multiline ligatures/powerstrings are coming to a PKL[eD] near you! Tremble, QWERTY!

Col    .d$$$******$$$$c.  mak  
 e/  .d$P"            "$$c  \/  
 /  $$$$$.     C     .$$$*$. \  
  .$$ 4$L*$$.     .$$Pd$  '$b   
  $F   *$. "$$e.e$$" 4$F   ^$b  
 d$     $$   z$$$e   $$     '$. 
 $P  m  `$L$$P` `"$$d$"   k  $$ 
 $$     e$$F   C   4$$b.     $$ 
 $b  .$$" $$   o  .$$ "4$b.  $$ 
 $$e$P"    $b     d$`    "$$c$F 
 '$P$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$  
  "$c.      4$.  $$       .$$   
 \ ^$$.  DH  $$ d$"  AW  d$P /  
 /\  "$$c.   `$b$F    .d$P" /\  
 CAW   `4$$$c.$$$..e$$P"   [eD] 

This has been a demonstration of Colemak's new demon summoning capabilities. It retroactively summoned a speed demon named Viper, which proves the greatness of its power.

To try this out with the latest PKL[eD], see the _eD_PwrStrings.ini file in the PKL_eD folder. Entry 666(!) has been mapped to Extend+Delete for the purpose of demon-stration. It could be mapped to a layout entry or a dead key release too – such is the power of PKL[eD] now.

I guess someone should notify the article author.

Awesome, NottNott!

What sux a bit is that different line endings cause trouble. I put only \n in the string, which makes it work in Notepad.exe but not in Notepad2. In Notepad++ it works too, but only if you deactivate auto-indent. :-) On Discord and here I couldn't enter the string directly but had to copy it in from a Notepad window. Notepad2 works with \r\n line endings, but those end up as double line breaks using the old Notepad. Ah well.

One option might be to actually write the hotstring to the copy-paste buffer! Then paste it into the active window. But that way, the currently active copy buffer would be overwritten which might frustrate users. Hmmm...

             ______             
 Col    .d$$$******$$$$c.  mak  
 e/  .d$P"            "$$c  \/  
 /  $$$$$.     C     .$$$*$. \  
  .$$ 4$L*$$.     .$$Pd$  '$b   
  $F   *$. "$$e.e$$" 4$F   ^$b  
 d$     $$   z$$$e   $$     '$. 
 $P  m  `$L$$P` `"$$d$"   k  $$ 
 $$     e$$F   C   4$$b.     $$ 
 $b  .$$" $$   o  .$$ "4$b.  $$ 
 $$e$P"    $b     d$`    "$$c$F 
 '$P$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$  
  "$c.      4$.  $$       .$$   
 \ ^$$.  DH  $$ d$"  AW  d$P /  
 /\  "$$c.   `$b$F    .d$P" /\  
 CAW   `4$$$c.$$$..e$$P"   [eD] 
           `^^^^^^^`            

Yay, the Paste/Clipboard method works for the forums too! But not for old Notepad, sadly. I did manage to save the old clipboard content though. With the clipboard, Notepad2 got double line breaks and old Notepad got no line breaks. What to do, what to do...

Since the Clipboard does work for both this forum and Discord, it should be an option at least.

[Edit: Solved it. You can now parse by line breaks and send Shift+Enter key strokes instead of the `n or `r`n chars. A bit more clunky, but it works across many apps/sites. However, the Paste/Clipboard method is less reliable then so I recommend using Message with it.]

Hehe, I thought about daemons in this context but your observations are indeed sensible. Shame on you for putting us to shame! ^_^

Iä Colemak-ⲔⲰ[eD]!!! Iä! Θώθ

Oh, btw: I tweaked the design a little and got a slightly higher demon-to-glyph ratio as measured by SteveP's secret analyzer:

             ______             
 Col    .d$$$******$$$$c.  mak  
 \e/ .d$P"            "$$c \-/  
    $$$$$.     C     .$$$*$.    
  .$$ 4$L*$$.     .$$Pd$  '$b   
  $F   *$. "$$e.e$$" 4$F   ^$b  
 d$     $$   z$$$e   $$     '$. 
 $P  m  `$L$$P` `"$$d$"   k  $$ 
 $$     e$$F   C   4$$b.     $$ 
 $b  .$$" $$   o  .$$ "4$b.  $$ 
 $$e$P"    $b     d$`    "$$c$F 
 '$P$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$  
  "$c.      4$.  $$       .$$   
   ^$$.  DH  $$ d$"  AW  d$P    
     "$$c.   `$b$F    .d$P"     
 CAW   `4$$$c.$$$..e$$P"   [eD] 
           `^^^^^^^`