Posted by Jean Ichbiah ® , Fri, Feb 07, 2003, 18:40:24 | Forum |
Consider what we do currently for Caps and Slides. Take the example we used when introducing custom slides in Version 2. A German user defines the following West slides that correspond to frequent letter sequences:
s schCurrently, sliding s will give sch but how do we get the second one? To get the capitalized one, you have to tap on the Shift key and then slide s.
S Sch
There is an alternate semantics we could define: We could consider that if we do a long slide, the slide for the capital variation applies if there is one. Look at the effect:
Currently, the system has the advantage that if you want a capital, you are guaranteed to get it by a long slide in any direction. With this change you would have to be a little more cautious for the vowels, as they have accented variations defined as default slides.
For example, consider the effect of a North long slide of a in the current and the alternate semantics:
Current: AFor most vowels you could be guaranteed to get the capital letter by doing a South long slide since none of the South slides has a predefined accented value. On the other hand, this does not work for the letter u (too close to the bottom) and you would have to use a long West slide to get U.
Alternate: Ä
Jean Ichbiah
PS. The change is big semantically but very small for the implementation.
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