AlternativeCyrillicKeyboard

[Mogens Jensen]

yamato at yt.cache.waseda.ac.jp writes:
...
>

> Some of the
>font manufacturers actually sell Russian fonts with these oldish
>characters, but none sell accented vowels for classroom use.
>I don't need accented vowels as I don't teach Russian, but I
>definitely need to use `o. So I had to create my own fonts and
>keyboard driver, and I think perhaps you do, too.
>
- in fact we do (Ozwix Data). - We sell a handfull of russian fonts
(including danish/norwegian/swedish/german spec.chars) - we also have made
them run with unicode-programs as eg Word97 - and with Jankos
keyboardlayoutmanager.
- Best wishes, Mogens Jensen, Ozwix Data, Denmark.
>
>Zhelaju Vam vsego, vsego khoroshego.
>With best wishes,
>
>Tsuji
>
>---------
>My own keyboard layout is ---note that uppercase comes first ---
>
> TH is on |\ key
>
> 1 No is on !1
> 2- is on @2
> 3/ is on #3
> 4" is on $4
> 5: is on %5
> 6, is on ^6
> 7. is on &7
> 8-- is on *8  (tire)
> 9? is on (9
> 0% is on )0
> I  is on _-
> ^E is on +=
>
> I kratokoe, C, U, K, E, N, G, Sh, Shch, Z, KH, hard sign
>
> F, Y, V, A, P, R, O, L, D, ZH, revE,
> closing guillemet, opening guillemet on ~`
>
> Ja, Ch, S, M, I, T, soft sign, B, Ju, Jo
>--- `o is printed by a TeX macro \`o as I use TeX rather than Microsoft
>things ---
>
>The keyboard layout of mine is not pre-1918, it is Soviet traditional
>plus a few additions. I did so because I had been using Russian
>typewriters
>more than ten years before I began using a computer with a Cyrillic
>keyboard. At that time one wrote in Russian like in German, the same
>way as Morse code or Braille code.