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Re: NeXT Word Processors - Junk, garbage, and more junk...

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From: Alexander Swietlicki
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 17:52
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In article <Bz2GC7.Cpz@news.cso.uiuc.edu> jeffo@uiuc.edu (J.B. Nicholson-Owens) writes:
>
>Lastly, and this is picking the smallest nit ever, how easy is using  
>TeX on a 2nd generation NeXT keyboard (the one with all the  
>commonly-used UNIX characters in the wrong place)?  For example, I've  
>noticed heavy use of the "\" character in TeX source code, however, on  
>my keyboard, that's a real stretch; something I would hate to have to  
>use often.  I would love to get the new ADB keyboard setup from NeXT,  
>it would solve many problems with the keyboard layout that often  
>surface, but it's not available for me.

	Nah...\ is control-/ on my keyboard.  As ~ is control-. and
| is control-; and ` is control-'   :)
	Thank god for /NextDeveloper/Demos/Keyboard! 
	You know what sucks about the ADB keyboard, though?  Take
a look how far away Alternate is from the arrow keys.  That takes
functionality away from Stuart...(Scott, get them to fix that) :)

	Alex
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From: swiet@syzygy.cs.jhu.edu (Alexander Swietlicki)
Subject: Re: NeXT Word Processors - Junk, garbage, and more junk...
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