"No-SHIFT" Remapping of Senior and Junior Quickscript Fonts for a QS
Keyboard Driver by Jon Zuck |
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Letters Which Usually Correspond to a Single Letter in Traditional Orthography |
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` | w | e | r | t | j | M | i | o | p | |
q | w | e | r | t | y | u | i | o | p | |
a | s | d | f | g | h | J | k | l | ||
a | s | d | f | g | h | j | k | l | ||
z | è | H | v | b | n | m | ||||
z | x | c | v | b | n | m | ||||
X's and Letters Usually Represented by Digraphs in Traditional Orthography, with variants |
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S | c | Z | T | H | ` | N | è | |||
sh | ch | zh | th | c | q | ng | x | |||
K | ~ | G | é | |||||||
cj | qj | jn | xj, xz | |||||||
Other Half-Letters and Namer Dot |
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@ | B | L | [ | ] | \ | ^ | / | |||
wj | dj | zj | tj | pj | yj | hj | kj, df | |||
Vowels Not Mapped to a Single Key. |
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u | I | E | A | F | O | U | Y | y | Q | q |
uh | ee, ea, ey | ay, ai | aa | ie,
yy, igh SHIFT+I |
oh | oo | aw | ah | ou, ow | oi, oy |
Comments:
Any "impossible" QS letter combination may be used for flagging alternate forms. It's desirable to have a single letter to remember as the "key ingredient of the flag. J is the letter of choice for flagging an alternate QS consonantal form. J is the strongest finger of the right hand, and cannot occur after any consonant sound in English except R, L, and N. Since R and L have no variants, only the NJ presents a problem An exception is NJ, as in change cEnJ. For NJ, substitute JN. X could've been chosen, but is a more difficult key to type, and H would recreate the already-used flags ZH, CH, TH, if coming second, and the HY sound occurs in some words if H comes first hVman. Also, H is involved in some of the Senior QS contractions, An additional reason for choosing J is that it does not occur in any of Read's recommended "contractions," so all of them remain available for use, unlike most other letters. I considered doubling but rejected because in present and past tenses of some verbs, noun plurals, and also with some prefixes, showing the doubling QS letters is recommended.. andarrEtd, Add, plIzz, briNN, annOn. (See QS manual 18-22.)
With computers, we are not limited to a single flag for a character. As long as any flag has only one possible character, multiple flags can be assigned to a given character. Besides the XJ flag, the Deep X can be given an additional flag XZ, which approximates its sound.