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Cathryn



Joined: 16 Jul 2005
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Location: Ceredigion
PostPosted: Wed Jan 31, 07 9:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

There's no room Don't think I have got a photo of me as it is usually me holding the camera. Will go and have a look.

Northern_Lad



Joined: 13 Dec 2004
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Location: Somewhere
PostPosted: Thu Feb 01, 07 8:43 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

dougal wrote:
Gervase wrote:
sean wrote:
Nah, it's an old PC keyboard being used with a Mac.

Don't worry, you soon get used to it. It's what I use.


But you don't have to "get used to it".


They do unless the get the tippex out on the keyboard. Changing the location will only change the translation of which key does what, not what the look like when you're hitting them.

Gervase



Joined: 17 Nov 2004
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 01, 07 10:47 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Northern_Lad wrote:

They do unless the get the tippex out on the keyboard. Changing the location will only change the translation of which key does what, not what the look like when you're hitting them.

Indeed. fortunately the keys on this keyboard are so covered with plaster, mastic, tea, small-boy-matter and gubbins that you can't see what half of them are meant to be. Ideal for touch-typists.

dougal



Joined: 15 Jan 2005
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Location: South Kent
PostPosted: Thu Feb 01, 07 11:08 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Northern_Lad wrote:
They do unless the get the tippex out on the keyboard. Changing the location will only change the translation of which key does what, not what the look like when you're hitting them.

Ummm. Have a re-read of the thread.

Gervase and Jamanda are using Windows keyboards with Macs.
On those keyboards Shift-2 is marked as " but delivers @ when you tell the Mac the fiction that it has a British-Mac keyboard attached.

My suggestion was that they tell the Mac the truth that a British-Windows keyboard was attached.
That will enable Shift-2 to deliver " exactly as marked on the key. And all the other keys to work exactly as marked.

The only problem arises when people choose a particular keyboard, perhaps because of its 'feel', but actually *want* to use a layout different to what is marked on the bit of hardware that they have chosen for other reasons.
In which case, rather than resorting to Tippex, I'd refer them to these people https://www.hooleon.com/

And even on a PC, don't do your on-screen corrections with Tippex...

jamanda
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Joined: 22 Oct 2006
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Location: Devon
PostPosted: Thu Feb 01, 07 4:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

dougal wrote:
sean wrote:
Nah, it's an old PC keyboard being used with a Mac.

OK, well it is a pity that British Windows uses a non (ISO) standard layout, while British Mac does use an ISO standard layout...

But I don't think its the end of the world.
https://www.gyford.com/phil/writing/2005/11/20/using_a_british.php
Like the man says, just don't use any of the odd punctuation characters in your login password. (Nice idea to just put the special layout in the individual *user's* library...)
You probably already know about the system preference for the order of the Command and Option keys from the Windows and Alt keys.


Had a look at that link, but the screen I get for clicking "keyboard & mouse" in system preferences looks nothing like the one shown. I suppose it doesn't matter too much. I tend to have more of a problem not automatically reversing them when I'm on my school computer.

CodyT07



Joined: 30 Dec 2006
Posts: 95
Location: South Eastern, USA
PostPosted: Sat Feb 03, 07 4:53 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I'm the only one in my country...

dougal



Joined: 15 Jan 2005
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 03, 07 10:24 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Jamanda wrote:
Had a look at that link, but the screen I get for clicking "keyboard & mouse" in system preferences looks nothing like the one shown.

1/ Thats the wrong bit of that linked page. You need to be working with "International" preferences - 'cos you've got a 'furrin' keyboard.
2/ The screenshot is after clicking the "Modifier keys" button in the Keyboard panel in 10.4 - you weren't bothered about rearranging control/alt/windows...
3/ Rather than hijack the atlas thread, PM me if you are still bothered, or else (over the kitchen table) ask a mod to shift this discussion to its own thread - probably under IT.

Last edited by dougal on Sat Feb 03, 07 10:28 am; edited 1 time in total

dougal



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PostPosted: Sat Feb 03, 07 10:26 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

CodyT07 wrote:
I'm the only one in my country...

Shouldn't let that bother you.
I expect most of us feel that way from time to time!

CodyT07



Joined: 30 Dec 2006
Posts: 95
Location: South Eastern, USA
PostPosted: Mon Feb 05, 07 4:08 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

dougal wrote:
CodyT07 wrote:
I'm the only one in my country...

Shouldn't let that bother you.
I expect most of us feel that way from time to time!

Actually I'm the only one on the other side of the world.

Gervase



Joined: 17 Nov 2004
Posts: 8655

PostPosted: Mon Feb 05, 07 7:54 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

dougal wrote:
My suggestion was that they tell the Mac the truth that a British-Windows keyboard was attached.
That will enable Shift-2 to deliver " exactly as marked on the key. And all the other keys to work exactly as marked.

It may remap my Mac, but it won't remap my brain - and as I have touch-typed for 20 years on a Mac keyboard, I'm far too old to have my fingers relearn the positions. Hence the fact that it doesn't really matter what's written on the keys - the same old garbage still fills the screen!

dougal



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PostPosted: Mon Feb 05, 07 10:24 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Gervase wrote:
... as I have touch-typed for 20 years on a Mac keyboard, ...


Yes, as I said...
dougal wrote:
The only problem arises when people choose a particular keyboard, perhaps because of its 'feel', but actually *want* to use a layout different to what is marked on the bit of hardware that they have chosen for other reasons.
In which case, rather than resorting to Tippex, I'd refer them {but only if it was a bother for them} to these people https://www.hooleon.com/

If your keyboard really is covered in (lime) plaster, etc, one possible (cheap but excellent) replacement you might consider is one of the old Apple ADB "extended keyboards" plus a USB/ADB converter. Those were much less stylish than the current offerings, but much better for typists. Total eBay cost maybe £15. (Keyboard here is yours for the postage - I have a few.)

I do wish some mod would shift the keyboard hijack to another thread.



Gervase, why are you mapped as being somewhere near Sheffield rather than in Wales where "there be dragons"? Or in the absence of an asbestos shield, is that a safe distance?

Is it possible for anyone to 'mod' the map and tidy/remove the multiple un-named entries?

kaz



Joined: 09 Sep 2006
Posts: 189

PostPosted: Sat Jun 23, 07 5:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Did the map ever get up and going?
We are thinking of having one for our forum but it sounds scary

jamanda
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Joined: 22 Oct 2006
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Location: Devon
PostPosted: Sat Jun 23, 07 5:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

kaz wrote:
Did the map ever get up and going?
We are thinking of having one for our forum but it sounds scary


Yes. There's a link to it in Simon's first post on the first page of this thread.

Barefoot Andrew
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Joined: 21 Mar 2007
Posts: 22780
Location: In the 17th century
PostPosted: Sat Jun 23, 07 5:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Excellent idea. I'll add myself soon.. need sort out a digital pic of myself first that isn't too horrific
A.

dougal



Joined: 15 Jan 2005
Posts: 7184
Location: South Kent
PostPosted: Sat Jun 23, 07 5:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Jamanda wrote:
kaz wrote:
Did the map ever get up and going?
We are thinking of having one for our forum but it sounds scary


Yes. There's a link to it in Simon's first post on the first page of this thread.

But last time I looked, it needed an awful lot of editing...

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