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| newbrain:
--- Quote from: bson on October 11, 2020, 07:41:57 pm ---On MacOS you can use the opt key: --- End quote --- On Windows (apart from the Alt-tricks), you can create a custom keyboard layout with Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator, including "dead" (compose) keys. I did, to add a number of useful stuff to my Swedish keyboard. The only (minor, to me) drawback is that the Emoji panel (Win-.) does not work: it pops up but you are not able to type to select one, though you can still use the mouse (or switch back to a regular layout with Win-Space) The Emoji panel itself contains a large symbol section with most scientific and mathematical symbols. |
| tooki:
--- Quote from: newbrain on October 11, 2020, 09:25:23 pm --- --- Quote from: bson on October 11, 2020, 07:41:57 pm ---On MacOS you can use the opt key: --- End quote --- On Windows (apart from the Alt-tricks), you can create a custom keyboard layout with Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator, including "dead" (compose) keys. I did, to add a number of useful stuff to my Swedish keyboard. The only (minor, to me) drawback is that the Emoji panel (Win-.) does not work: it pops up but you are not able to type to select one, though you can still use the mouse (or switch back to a regular layout with Win-Space) The Emoji panel itself contains a large symbol section with most scientific and mathematical symbols. --- End quote --- MKLC is great. As a primarily Mac user who regularly has to write in both English and German, but who is entirely accustomed to the US keyboard layout, I used MKLC to make myself a bilingual layout for Windows at work. It's largely modeled on the Mac's layout, but with a bit of German in it to make it easy to type umlauted letters, and various dead keys and right-alt combinations to enter special characters. (This is an area where Windows historically has been absolutely maddening, requiring Alt codes to enter what I consider basic typographic glyphs. The Mac was way, way, way better thought out in this regard, right from the start back in '84. It's easy enough to enter umlauts on a Mac US layout, so I've never felt the need to build a custom layout for it.) |
| eti:
The current obsession, internet-wide, with dark themes just doesn't make sense from a visual perspective. As with most current digital fads, it's all about PERCEIVED benefit - placebo - rather than hard facts based on research. When one reads dark text on a light background, the predominant percentage of screen area emitting bright light, causes one's pupils to contract, therefore affording a deeper depth of field, and one struggles far less to focus on the text. I explained that poorly, suffice it to say that "dark mode" is just a fad UNLESS it's night time and you're sleepy, and the brightness of the screen is too painful to your eyes, in which case... TURN OFF AND GO TO SLEEP!! |
| Ed.Kloonk:
--- Quote from: eti on October 16, 2020, 01:58:35 am ---The current obsession, internet-wide, with dark themes just doesn't make sense from a visual perspective. As with most current digital fads, it's all about PERCEIVED benefit - placebo - rather than hard facts based on research. When one reads dark text on a light background, the predominant percentage of screen area emitting bright light, causes one's pupils to contract, therefore affording a deeper depth of field, and one struggles far less to focus on the text. I explained that poorly, suffice it to say that "dark mode" is just a fad UNLESS it's night time and you're sleepy, and the brightness of the screen is too painful to your eyes, in which case... TURN OFF AND GO TO SLEEP!! --- End quote --- It's got less to do with focus and more to do with contrast. |
| eti:
--- Quote from: Ed.Kloonk on October 16, 2020, 02:09:26 am --- --- Quote from: eti on October 16, 2020, 01:58:35 am ---The current obsession, internet-wide, with dark themes just doesn't make sense from a visual perspective. As with most current digital fads, it's all about PERCEIVED benefit - placebo - rather than hard facts based on research. When one reads dark text on a light background, the predominant percentage of screen area emitting bright light, causes one's pupils to contract, therefore affording a deeper depth of field, and one struggles far less to focus on the text. I explained that poorly, suffice it to say that "dark mode" is just a fad UNLESS it's night time and you're sleepy, and the brightness of the screen is too painful to your eyes, in which case... TURN OFF AND GO TO SLEEP!! --- End quote --- It's got less to do with focus and more to do with contrast. --- End quote --- I understand that, but it's the opposite of what the dark theme protagonists desire which actually seems to be the case - it's hugely in the mind, I believe. |
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