I guess that a lot of Colemak users type mainly in English but other languages as well. Same for me but I don't just write in English and my mothertongue. So my question is, is there anything like a EurKEY Version for Colemak or something similar? Perfect would be a Colemak-DH (English Layout) with the Layer of EurKEY added. But I guess that's just a dream because there is no other EurKEY Layout mentioned on their Website. But is there something similar, because a single Colemak-spanish and a single Colemak-french wouldn't be the solution for me...
(EurKEY is a layout that tries to unite most european languages in one single board but it uses the US-QWERTY as base)
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EurKEY Colemak Version
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Are you aware that standard Colemak has similar multilingual capabilities?
Last edited byghen (15-Sep-2020 21:25:20)
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Oh wow, that's really cool I didn't knew that, thank you!
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Standard Colemak is multilingual, but not nearly as advanced as my Colemak[eD] variant. It's covered in the BigBag although the full depth of it, sadly, isn't documented. I've been inspired by other projects (such as Bépo) and put a lot of work into it.
I can type nearly anything, such as Vietnamese and Pan-African, with relative ease.
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Thank you, that seems a lot more intuitiv. The only thing I perhaps have to adjust is how to type the ñ. Because I need this relatively often. Because nearly in every formal mail in spanish I need it in the first row...
But thank you very much!
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Yes, I just made an alternative Spanish layout for EPKL in which you use AltGr+naeiou for ñáéíóú. It was for a user at the Discord. My standard Spanish/LatAm layout uses the bracket keys for accent and grave dead keys, and the ISO key (LSGT, VK_102) for ñ. Maybe one of those can be of help for you? I fully realize that typing the odd special or accented symbol is quite different from using it all the time in a language!
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In Dutch I just need vowels with diaeresis (ëïöü) and é, plus some occasional extra characters like ç or è for French loanwords. So the standard Colemak AltGr mappings are good enough for me, particularly because I have them on every Linux system by default without any customisations. For more advanced stuff I just use Linux compose sequences, which are extremely powerful as well.
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Indeed, Compose is very powerful. I've thought about including it in EPKL. It'd be very cool if EPKL could use a Linux Compose table directly, without (m)any conversions...
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