Support for Alternative Layouts
This is a summary of how alternative layouts have been supported by kits such as Colevrak and Homing. It is not a discussion of alt layout performance and development, but if that interests you I highly recommend starting with Pascal Getreuer’s A guide to alt keyboard layouts (why, how, which one?). It’s a concise and comprehensive overview with links to some great sites that go deeper. He also has a separate Links about keyboards page. The Keyboard layouts doc he recommends explains layout goals and metrics in detail, summarizing the alt layouts discussed here as well as more than one hundred others. Sculpted-profile The majority of custom keycap sets are sculpted-profile (Cherry, SA, MT3, KAT, etc. - more on profiles generally here) so let’s start there. Because each row has a unique keycap shape, alt layouts require a unique keycap for each legend that moves off its QWERTY row. At first there were two The Dvorak layout was patented in 1936 by August Dvorak & William L....
Apr 23, 2024
When connected to a Lenovo T450, pressing a key produces an "equals" character ("="), as configured in the configurator. However, when connected to a Surface Pro 4, the same key produces a "close square bracket" symbol ("]"). Pressing the key configured for "close square bracket" produces an "equals" sign. They're switched.
This only happens with a few symbols, not letters, or numbers. Similarly mixed up symbols include dash, slash, backslash, tilde, question mark, and a few others.
It seems to be related to my default keyboard layout in Windows 10 (US Dvorak, and ErgoDox configured with a corresponding Dvorak layout). Does anyone have any idea of what might be going on? It's just a bit strange that the keyboard reacts different when on different systems. Both systems are configured with UK English as the input language with US Dvorak as the keyboard layout.