On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 07:53, Shachar Shemesh <shac...@shemesh.biz> wrote: > I should point out that the document is somewhat out of date, as we are > quickly approaching a keyboard layout that: > > 1. Will be standard > and > 2. Will have all of the keys that lyx has. >
How does an upcoming standard make the page somewhat out of date? > Having said that, it will not have LRE/RLE/PDF (nor LRO and RLO, for > that matter). This is not an accidental omission. These keys change the > appearance of the paragraph they are typed into so violently that even > people very versed in the UBA tend to lose the spot the corresponding > PDF should go. > At least the LRM and RLM are there. There are some issues with the new keyboard layout: 1) The lack of LRE/RLE/PDF. What is violent about the change of appearance? Like any other tool, if one understands how to use it then it works. If not then you'll get unexpected results. Just because some people don't know how to use it doesn't mean that the tool should simply cease to be available. 2) Four levels of keys? That is torture to type on. Emacs users, let me guess. Don't get me wrong, there are some great things about the new layout. The placement of the Shin dots, for example. But it looks to be painful to type on and limiting. The Lyx layout is a breeze to type on. זֶה לֹא דוֹרֶש שוּם מַאֲמָץ. The only keys that I used there were the alphanumerics and Shift. It's as simple as typing English, no triple whamies or whatever the Emacs crowd calls their nose-finger. Furthermore, the LRE and RLE are extremely useful for typing email. There is no other way to ensure that the recipient will display the message correctly. I don't even use the PDF symbol, just RLE before RTL sections and if there is an LTR section then I start it with an LRE and begin the next RTL section with an RLE. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
