WFH

WFH, 10 months ago

LibreOffice Calc and a lot of free time 😅

WFH, 10 months ago

That’s actually a good point. I’ve read Optimot’s design goals and I’m working on a new revision where é and à are moved to the base layer since they are more common than a lot of consonants.

WFH, 10 months ago

Yeah but I really like having physical arrow keys 😅

I’ve never been a fan of the vi-style keys.

WFH, 10 months ago

I always program my arrow keys to have PgUp/PgDn/Home/End, so technically they do two things 😅. I’m working on the layout and all of the layers are crammed already. I may have to abandon features tho, the way I see it I would need to free 8 keys on the function layer to make things work.

WFH, 10 months ago

That was actually very similar to my first prototype but I went another direction.

WFH, 10 months ago

if Linux/Mac/Windows all have the same deadkey combination for ë and ê on their built-in AZERTY, use a macro that types that.

They do actually. Macro it is then.

For the ligatures, I might actually map AltGr-O and AltGr-A to some keys and Alt+0156 and Alt+0230 to adjacent keys, so there is no need to maintain layer spaghetti just for two (useful but relatively uncommon) characters.

A whole new can of worms can be opened too with accented, uppercase letters.

I’m gonna scale my ambitions down. Let’s not be more royalist than the king as we say in French, I will aim for parity with the AZERTY keyboard and we’ll see from there.

WFH, 10 months ago

I have very large hands so it’s mostly fine. Thanks for the standard spacing tho, I used 20mm because it was convenient 😅

WFH, 10 months ago

Ergogen

No, good old TikerCAD and a lot of free time :D

WFH, 11 months ago

Oh thanks, I’ll check it out.

WFH, 10 months ago

FX300 Angular. Basically the WipeOut Pure typeface.