Le 11 mars 09 à 10:46, Allan Odgaard a écrit :
May I ask why you didn't make the shortcuts so that they worked on both US and European keyboards, if you have one yourself? [...]
I am not sure what shortcuts you are referring to. Those in the various bundles (which I think is what started this thread) are not chosen by me.
Not to mention there are a lot of different keyboards. Just for French (as in “I speak French”), there is at least: — PC French (as in “I live in France”), AZERTY — PC Belgian French, AZERTY — Mac French and Belgian French, a subtle mix of the previous two and the one I've always used — Canadian French, QWERTY — I might switch to this one or multilingual Canadian someday, but as not as long as I use laptops — Swiss French, QWERTZ — even though it sounds like the Swiss keyboards don’t vary a lot between languages
On Mac French keyboard, / { } _ are 2-keys, \ [ ] 3-keys, ^ is dead key. Numbers are 2-keys, too. Quite a pain when selecting commands from a menu, especially as none of the non-shifted key is ever to be useful in that context (how fast can you say &é"'(§è!çà ?). Both ⌘3 and ⌘4 can’t be used on this layout as they have to be shifted and thus take snapshots. Also the default shortcut for TM Indent Line can’t be typed either.
And I discovered some years ago that some english-speaking people don’t even know there are other layouts than US.
Typewriter designer should have think of us when they designed their keyboards.
Édouard