Quoting Benjamin Drung (2015-02-12 12:25:06)
> Am Mittwoch, den 11.02.2015, 21:15 -0800 schrieb Nikolaus Rath:
> > I'm curious, how do you type that in conviently? I hope it's not copying
> > and pasting from a template file, and remembering (and/or finding out) the
> > X11 Compose sequence seems cumbersome too.
>
> If you use the German Neo 2 layout¹, you can type … by pressing Mod3 +
> x.
>
> ¹http://neo-layout.org/
Even without writing nearly any German anymore I still find the Neo 2 layout
very useful and would not switch back to qwerty:
- compared to English (which is what I write most things in these days) the
distribution of letter frequency in German is not *that* different and still
the key placement is better compared to qwerty
- keys useful for programming like this: \/{}*?()-:@ are all on the baseline
- as Benjamin points out, lots of other exotic characters are easily available
(some keys have SIX layers, so it takes some time to remember which key is
which but there are some handy printouts for the beginning):
http://neo-layout.org/grafik/tastatur2d/matrix_ebene_%5b1%5d2,3,4,%5b5%5d6_%5bMartin%5d.png
- works really well for some other languages that share similar letters like:
* swedish: just replace the letter with the ü with an å
* danish/norwegian: replace ü,ö,ä with æ,ø,å
* (I also heard neo2 works really well for Austrian and Swissian ;)
cheers, josch
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