Hi all,
I am from spain, and I'm interested on colemak features to spanish users.
So:
How is spanish layout?
where we must put Ñ key?
Is colemak related software multilingual to make a full featured experience to spanish (or another country) users?
Is this layout set right?
I have a lot of locale layouts in the BigBag:
( のvの) c[_] ～( See "DreymaR's Big Bag Of Keyboard Tricks" )
https://dreymar.colemak.org
For Windows, you can quite easily use one of several Spanish solutions with my EPKL program:
https://github.com/DreymaR/BigBagKbdTri … /Cmk-eD-Es
The Colemak-eD-EsLat AngleWide layout on an ISO keyboard.
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ñice!
Using Colemak-DH with Seniply.
Whý, tháñk yõú! (❁°‿°)
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You'd may want to consider whether you want to have Ñ as a separate key.
It has a frequency of about 0.2% in Spanish (or once per 500 keystrokes).
If you type in other languages, it will be effectively less than that.
Yeah, but it's still higher than œ so I'm happy to put it on my ISO key. (❁°‿°)
I feel that glyphs that are a part of text flow deserve a little better than their pure frequency dictates. Not by a great amount but still. Therefore it's still nice to have a key for ñ in Spanish – but it certainly shouldn't be a good position!
I feel the same about "breaking" vs "non-breaking" punctuation: Symbols that create a pause like the period or colon are a bit different than symbols that should go in the text flow like apostrophe and hyphen. Of course, period and comma are so common that they still deserve good spots – but it makes sense to me to not intersperse such symbols with the letters even though some of those letters have lower frequency.
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