Hiya!
As mentioned before, Graphite has been in my EPKL program for some time.
One thing led to another, and I've tinkered forth a "light" variant that keeps punctuation and shift states in place. This, among other things, is because I use a special thumb dead key for much of my punctuation. It also preserves a more familiar Z location, as that could be done with hardly any effect on the stats (cmini).
Unlike many others, I do care a little about similarity with familiar layouts to lessen the mental load of learning and switching ... as long as layout quality doesn't take any significant hits, of course!
Graphite "Gralmak" ortho (with thumb-key punctuation):
b l d w q j f o u '
n r t s g y h a e i
z x m c v k p /
, . ;
Graphite "Gralmak" with AngleWideSym (AWS-ISO) ergo mods:
+----------------------------+
| 1 2 3 4 5 6 \ 7 8 9 0 = |
| b l d w q [ j f o u ' - |
| n r t s g ] y h a e i ; |
| z x m c v _ / k p , . |
+----------------------------+
https://github.com/DreymaR/BigBagKbdTrixPKL/tree/master/Layouts/Graphite#gralmak
My questions are these, then:
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What do you think? It's obviously less fully optimized than your full Graphite, but it fills somewhat different purposes. One thought is that some might want to learn Gralmak as a possible step to full Graphite, similar to the Tarmak philosophy for Colemak. These users would be able to learn the most important bits first, and then once that's in place they could consider going all the way to Graphite – or maybe keep on using it like I've tested it out, with punctuation aids.
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Might you consider linking to it in your "Variants" README WIP section?
Hiya!
As mentioned before, Graphite has been in my EPKL program for some time.
One thing led to another, and I've tinkered forth a "light" variant that keeps punctuation and shift states in place. This, among other things, is because I use a special thumb dead key for much of my punctuation. It also preserves a more familiar Z location, as that could be done with hardly any effect on the stats (cmini).
Unlike many others, I do care a little about similarity with familiar layouts to lessen the mental load of learning and switching ... as long as layout quality doesn't take any significant hits, of course!
Graphite "Gralmak" ortho (with thumb-key punctuation):
Graphite "Gralmak" with AngleWideSym (AWS-ISO) ergo mods:
https://github.com/DreymaR/BigBagKbdTrixPKL/tree/master/Layouts/Graphite#gralmak
My questions are these, then:
What do you think? It's obviously less fully optimized than your full Graphite, but it fills somewhat different purposes. One thought is that some might want to learn Gralmak as a possible step to full Graphite, similar to the Tarmak philosophy for Colemak. These users would be able to learn the most important bits first, and then once that's in place they could consider going all the way to Graphite – or maybe keep on using it like I've tested it out, with punctuation aids.
Might you consider linking to it in your "Variants" README WIP section?