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morgynleri*sits and cackles over their current bit of world-building that will probably never actually show up in a story, but is useful nonetheless*
I decided I needed to know what a modern Sindarin keyboard would look like for a computer. And decided that yes, even the wireless ones would have an effing backlight, because dude, tying in low light would be much easier if my effing keyboard backlit the keys. But noooo, minimal keyboards don't NEED a backlight.
Anyway. It's a row shorter than a qwerty keyboard, there are shift keys to switch between sets - numbers are least-significant-digit on shift, the tengwar shift from open to closed (which one shifts which way is different for the top and bottom rows), the tehtar switch from a/e/i to o/u/y, the punctuation goes from more used to less used (in theory), and the long stem becomes the short stem and the doubling/nasalizing bar goes to the wiggly bar for making c/k into a qu/qw. Tab and delete are on opposite ends of the numbers, there's no caps lock button, but there is a return button. And there's a row of function keys, with an escape/eject button on the left and the power button on the right. And the extra Tengwar shift between things based on whichever row they originally occupied with the other Tengwar.
I may still tweak it some, but I think I have a workable visual for it. (now, granted, it only works for Gondorian-mode and can possibly be mapped for Quenya-mode, but Beleriand-mode is... missing some letters. Which is part of why I may tweak it further. It also doesn't have the extended-stem tengwar, but I'm not sure I give a fuck about that.)
Edit: I forgot I had two blank keys in the shifted keyboard, so I moved the tehtar for a vowel-y under the period, added the tengwar for beleriand-mode vowel-y under the comma, and shuffled the rest of the vowels so the shift-a switches from tehtar-a to tengwar-a, the e/i tehtar are on the same key, and the o/u tehtar are on the same key, and the tengwar version of the vowels were already in there as consonant tengwar. So now the fantasy keyboard works for two different modes for sindarin, and for quenya! *does a happy dance*
I decided I needed to know what a modern Sindarin keyboard would look like for a computer. And decided that yes, even the wireless ones would have an effing backlight, because dude, tying in low light would be much easier if my effing keyboard backlit the keys. But noooo, minimal keyboards don't NEED a backlight.
Anyway. It's a row shorter than a qwerty keyboard, there are shift keys to switch between sets - numbers are least-significant-digit on shift, the tengwar shift from open to closed (which one shifts which way is different for the top and bottom rows), the tehtar switch from a/e/i to o/u/y, the punctuation goes from more used to less used (in theory), and the long stem becomes the short stem and the doubling/nasalizing bar goes to the wiggly bar for making c/k into a qu/qw. Tab and delete are on opposite ends of the numbers, there's no caps lock button, but there is a return button. And there's a row of function keys, with an escape/eject button on the left and the power button on the right. And the extra Tengwar shift between things based on whichever row they originally occupied with the other Tengwar.
I may still tweak it some, but I think I have a workable visual for it. (now, granted, it only works for Gondorian-mode and can possibly be mapped for Quenya-mode, but Beleriand-mode is... missing some letters. Which is part of why I may tweak it further. It also doesn't have the extended-stem tengwar, but I'm not sure I give a fuck about that.)
Edit: I forgot I had two blank keys in the shifted keyboard, so I moved the tehtar for a vowel-y under the period, added the tengwar for beleriand-mode vowel-y under the comma, and shuffled the rest of the vowels so the shift-a switches from tehtar-a to tengwar-a, the e/i tehtar are on the same key, and the o/u tehtar are on the same key, and the tengwar version of the vowels were already in there as consonant tengwar. So now the fantasy keyboard works for two different modes for sindarin, and for quenya! *does a happy dance*
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Date: 2020-06-25 01:44 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-06-25 02:48 am (UTC)I did some more adjusting today, because I went "but what if they adapted the full mode again for everyday typing, and the mode with the tehtar becomes a formal mode of writing?" and adjusted the keyboard to fit that. Which mostly meant moving around vowels, but still. :D
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Date: 2020-06-25 03:01 am (UTC)