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As a german guy (with qwertz keyboard) I feel like I'm left out :-(

by W0lf 11y ago

susam 11y ago
I am sorry to know that you feel left out. QWERTZ keyboard is not too different from QWERTY keyboard. QWERTZ keyboard has the positions of Y nd Z are interchanged and has a few more letters with diaeresis. So I believe you might be able to use QuickQWERTY itself on QWERTZ keyboard as well if you are a little careful about ignoring the guide for units 7 and 12. By the way, the code for QuickQWERTY is available at at https://github.com/susam/quickqwerty https://github.com/susam/quickqwerty. Anyone interested in writing units for alternate keyboard layouts like QWERTZ, AZERTY, Dvorak, etc. just needs to fork the project and work with one file: js/units.js. All the units are defined in this single JavaScript file. The only things that one might find a little confusing in js/units.js are the 'main' and 'alternate' properties. The 'main' units teach 6-7 split style of typing the number keys and the 'alternate' units override some 'main' units (units 16 to 20) to teach 5-6 split style. For more information on this, see http://quickqwerty.com/README.html#split http://quickqwerty.com/README.html#split. So all one needs to do to support alternate keyboard layouts is to edit js/units.js and define lessons that make sense for the keyboard layout. The user interface is not hardcoded to display only 21 units and only 5 subunits per unit. Therefore, one can change the number of units in js/units.js as well as the number of subunits in any unit, and the user interface should take care of displaying the appropriate number of units and subunits.
lemonad 11y ago
It took me a while to understand why there was such a tricky character as semicolon in the first unit. On a Swedish keyboard, I think it's equivalent to typing the < key on a US keyboard (and the left shift key on a Swedish keyboard is tiny). We have QWERTY though.

As a german guy (with qwertz keyboard) I feel like I'm left out :-(

by W0lf 11y ago

As a german guy (with qwertz keyboard) I feel like I'm left out :-(

susam 11y ago

I am sorry to know that you feel left out. QWERTZ keyboard is not too different from QWERTY keyboard. QWERTZ keyboard has the positions of Y nd Z are interchanged and has a few more letters with diaeresis. So I believe you might be able to use QuickQWERTY itself on QWERTZ keyboard as well if you are a little careful about ignoring the guide for units 7 and 12. By the way, the code for QuickQWERTY is available at at https://github.com/susam/quickqwerty https://github.com/susam/quickqwerty. Anyone interested in writing units for alternate keyboard layouts like QWERTZ, AZERTY, Dvorak, etc. just needs to fork the project and work with one file: js/units.js. All the units are defined in this single JavaScript file. The only things that one might find a little confusing in js/units.js are the 'main' and 'alternate' properties. The 'main' units teach 6-7 split style of typing the number keys and the 'alternate' units override some 'main' units (units 16 to 20) to teach 5-6 split style. For more information on this, see http://quickqwerty.com/README.html#split http://quickqwerty.com/README.html#split. So all one needs to do to support alternate keyboard layouts is to edit js/units.js and define lessons that make sense for the keyboard layout. The user interface is not hardcoded to display only 21 units and only 5 subunits per unit. Therefore, one can change the number of units in js/units.js as well as the number of subunits in any unit, and the user interface should take care of displaying the appropriate number of units and subunits.

lemonad 11y ago

It took me a while to understand why there was such a tricky character as semicolon in the first unit. On a Swedish keyboard, I think it's equivalent to typing the < key on a US keyboard (and the left shift key on a Swedish keyboard is tiny). We have QWERTY though.