Enhancement of the Lakota virtual Keyboard
Posted: January 21st, 2009, 3:49 pmFriends, here's an update on the virtual Lakota Keyboard used in this Forum.
After testing the virtual Lakota Keyboard that can be launched by pressing [Turn Lakota Keyboard ON] button, we found some discomfort with frequent turning the keyboard on and off when writing the posts that have Lakota and English parts intermingled. To make typing such texts easier we introduced the following modifications to the Keyboard:
1. you can use it as before - mouse click on [Turn Lakota Keyboard ON] and type Lakota stuff, mouse click again - and type English stuff, etc. BUT please NEVER, NEVER press [ key!!!
2. if you press [ instead of left square bracket you'll get [ b ] tag that makes the text bold in the output. But beside that "[ b ]" this hotkey has another important job: it turns your Keyboard into "switchable Lakota" state. That means that you write Lakota stuff, but if you want to type some English, instead of taking your mouse and clicking on [Turn Lakota Keyboard OFF] button you just press ] key, that gives you closing [/ b ] tag and now you can type English with Lakota Keyboard in stand by mode. So you can now type something like this:
Wičháša k'uŋ héhaŋ - note the difference between k'uŋ and kiŋ
--writing actually something like this (recording the keys on English keyboard that you actually pressed):
--So, this enhancement aims at two goals:
1. make typing intermingled Lakota-English text easier
2. disciplines the members in putting Lakota sentences into bold tags.
We need your feedback for this update - maybe we should modify it somehow.
After testing the virtual Lakota Keyboard that can be launched by pressing [Turn Lakota Keyboard ON] button, we found some discomfort with frequent turning the keyboard on and off when writing the posts that have Lakota and English parts intermingled. To make typing such texts easier we introduced the following modifications to the Keyboard:
1. you can use it as before - mouse click on [Turn Lakota Keyboard ON] and type Lakota stuff, mouse click again - and type English stuff, etc. BUT please NEVER, NEVER press [ key!!!
2. if you press [ instead of left square bracket you'll get [ b ] tag that makes the text bold in the output. But beside that "[ b ]" this hotkey has another important job: it turns your Keyboard into "switchable Lakota" state. That means that you write Lakota stuff, but if you want to type some English, instead of taking your mouse and clicking on [Turn Lakota Keyboard OFF] button you just press ] key, that gives you closing [/ b ] tag and now you can type English with Lakota Keyboard in stand by mode. So you can now type something like this:
Wičháša k'uŋ héhaŋ - note the difference between k'uŋ and kiŋ
--writing actually something like this (recording the keys on English keyboard that you actually pressed):
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[Wicha'ra k'un he'han ] - note the difference between [k'uf] and [kif]
--So, this enhancement aims at two goals:
1. make typing intermingled Lakota-English text easier
2. disciplines the members in putting Lakota sentences into bold tags.
We need your feedback for this update - maybe we should modify it somehow.
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