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Sure, but it's super annoying when you write something in markdown knowing that being lazy with the proportional/monospace mix will noticeably harm understandab
by usrusr 4y ago
Sure, but it's super annoying when you write something in markdown knowing that being lazy with the proportional/monospace mix will noticeably harm understandability. Particularly when you suspect that readers will be close to failing to understand, doubly so when you suspect that this reader might be a future self. Is it worth the time writing? Only if I get the monospace right. Dead keys can make that writing situation a weirdly subtle kind of hell.
So annoying in fact that I've just spent the last two hours with Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator (yeah, I'm still a Windows person) shifting the dead key version to hide behind alt-gr.
Then I used it to mitigate some oddities on the dynabook keyboard (pipe and smaller/greater than weirdly moved to where the windows connect menu button usually resides) and continued duplicating some of the usual alt-gr suspects at locations inspired by their US KB position. Right now I'm an inappropriately happy person, let's see how I'll think about it in the future (getting too used to something non-standard cab be a terrible cost).