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whalebiologist

Nov 17, 2016

Just to confirm, there is no way to program alt-codes to keys we don't use (such as say, pg up/down)? I do a lot of statistical work and being able to quickly dish out the mu's, betas and sigmas would be super helpful. That is really the only thing I am looking for in a board that doesn't seem to be offered here.

Nov 17, 2016

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Melancholy

Nov 17, 2016

whalebiologistHoly shit I never thought of that. I always had just used autocorrect to change \mu \rho etc into the symbol.

Nov 17, 2016

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dalriada

Nov 18, 2016

whalebiologistI use a more primitive mechanical keyboard than the one in this drop. I live in the UK, but it's a US ANSI layout. I gain access to symbols such as £, which are not on the US keyboard, by using the Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator software. This allows me to define the right Alt key as AltGr, as it would be in the UK. I get the £ symbol by using AltGr+3, instead of the usual Shift+3. Lots of other characters can be defined to other keys in this way. There are probably other software packages which can accomplish the same task; including on other OS platforms.

Nov 18, 2016

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whalebiologist

Nov 18, 2016

MelancholyYeah that works too! Sometimes I'm using computers at my university that I don't have admin access for, and things like autocorrect revert to normal once I exit the environment.

Nov 18, 2016

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whalebiologist

Nov 18, 2016

dalriadaI might look into this, thank you. I was considering a piece of software such as breevy, designed to simply replace words I type with a preset selection.

Nov 18, 2016

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dalriada

Nov 18, 2016

whalebiologistThe advantage of the approach I took, is that it generates a custom keyboard layout. Select it as the default keyboard, and you always have access to the symbols, without running other third party software.

Nov 18, 2016

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dalriada

Nov 18, 2016

whalebiologistIt's also completely free, which I see Breevy isn't. I did have to play around with it a bit to figure it out though. It's not the most user friendly of programs, but worth the effort in my opinion. Once you create the layout you want, you have to 'Build DLL and Setup Package'(on the Project menu); run the created setup program; then select the custom keyboard you have created. You don't have to bother with the program again, after you have the layout you want.

Nov 18, 2016

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