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- From: vhs@darkcube.radig.de (Volker Herminghaus-Shirai)
- Subject: Re: Dvorak keymapping for NeXT (type at twice the speed!)
- Message-ID: <1992Jul29.132405.10308@darkcube.radig.de>
- Sender: vhs@darkcube.radig.de (Volker Herminghaus-Shirai)
- Reply-To: vhs@darkcube.radig.de
- References: <1992Jul26.153220.24720@metropolis.com>
- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 92 13:24:05 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul26.153220.24720@metropolis.com> robert@metropolis.com
- (Robert Munyer) writes:
- > I would guess that the Dvorak keyboard would work well for German, because
- > of similarities between German and English. Perhaps the best idea would be
- > for you to run some tests and find out for yourself. Try this:
- >
- > Try this on some German text, and let us know how it turns out ...
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- OK, I did. Here's the statistics
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- $ wc text
- 53 1463 9278 text
- $ homerow text sholes
- hal 1
- 1
- $ homerow text
- [lotsa stuff deleted]
- 268
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- That's more than 18% of the words.
- Pretty good. I think I'll go for it.
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- --
- Volker Herminghaus-Shirai (vhs@darkcube.radig.de)
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- If I had intel inside(tm), I'd throw up...
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