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Though for what it is worth, on the ThumbsPlus - while Space on R.Alt is less comfortable - I put Shift on Space to reduce redundancy.

Thumbsplus 10 forum mod#

That aside, not much to say that hasn't been said about the ThumbsPlus or the Curl Mod separately. I think your best bet would be to rely on your wordprocessor's autocorrect or automatic text replacement to add apostrophes when needed.

On the other hand, you don't have much space to play around in. I'm not quite sure you realize just how bad it is. well, the apostrophe placement is terrible. Still easier and cheaper than obtaining or assembling an Ergodox.ДЄs for your current proposal. The JIS keyboards are somewhat hard to find outside of Japan. All other keyboards with a split spacebar use the same scancode for both halves. Even that is only when one of them is set in backspace mode, so you'd have to remap both L.Space and Backspace together. The Microsoft Sculpt comfort is the only keyboard that I am aware of that has a split spacebar with seperate scancodes. Makeshift split keyboard using a Logitech G13 for the left hand. The best solutions I have found are: (will add pictures. As the layout with the fewest keys, it is the lowest common denominator when fiddling with design. Second goal, find something that works on ANSI. Having a 9 key home row when you could have a 10 key home row is ludicrous.

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Most of my later mods have also been geared towards finding a solution to the lack of thumbkeys. That would then allow Space, Shift and AltGr to become thumbs even on a normal(-ish) keyboard, and without having to resort to keyboard hackery.Дoesn't that sound familiar. Ultimately though, I think the best solution is to have a keyboard with split space bar (as long as the two halves produce different scan codes). Of course the idea of remapping RWin to AltGr works OK-ish even with the single-wide mod, but feels more awkward than ideal. Some might prefer swapping thumbs for space and shift as per cevgar's suggestion. Alternatively normal Enter could be achieved with AltGr+Enter. I use extend+space for Enter these days, as per your extend layer. I take your point about the apostrophe, it's definately a problem. While the brackets in the middle two columns looks nice, it's secondary to the main benefit, which is comfortable access to modifiers (esp Shift and AltGr) via thumbs! And on a normal keyboard too (before someone mentions ErgoDox!!).

To go back to the double-wide mod: my main motivation for that is the gain of thumb keys. I don't really like reaching for the number row in fact I am thinking about modifying my AltGr layer to include a virtual numpad on the right hand. To be honest I don't really have a system for numbers either - I usually resort to looking at the keyboard to type them.