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In article <29800005@ccvaxa> aglew@ccvaxa.UUCP writes:
>matching brackets on adjacent keys, near to each other. The keyboards that
>...
>start off right, but putting < and > above , and . breaks the pattern (and,

Hmmm... , and . being adjacent on my keyboard, it follows that < and >
are, too.

>While we're at it, where should properly formed left and right quotation
>marks be put, or, if not on the keyboard, how should they be generated?
>(no, back-quote and single quote do not always match).

For balanced quotation marks I would go for compose-' and compose-`
(are there distinct glyphs for `` and '' in ISO latin 1?)

My personal choice for French guillemets would be compose-< for << and
compose-> for >>.

The following layout allows for adjacency in both cases:

         "ascii mode"                             "french mode"
(compose key depressed in "wp"          (compose key depressed in "programming"
 mode)                                    mode)

		    ---------------                       --------------- 
		   |backsp |delete |                     |backsp |delete |
		   |       |       |                     |       |       |
	     ----------------------                ---------------------- 
	    | {  | }  | |  |       |              | e" | u^ | i^ |       |
	    | [  | ]  | \  |       |              | e^ | a^ | o^ |       |
	 ------------------        |           ------------------        |
	| :  | "  | ~  |  return   |          | :  | "  | u` |  return   |
	| ;  | '  | `  |           |          | ;  | e` | a` |           |
  ---------------------------------     --------------------------------- 
 | <  | >  | ?  |  shift     | lf  |   | << | >> | c, |  shift     | lf  |
 | ,  | .  | /  |            |     |   | ,  | .  | e' |            |     |
  ---------------------------------     --------------------------------- 
	 | control   | compose     |           | control   | compose     |
	 |           |             |           |           |             |
  ---------------------------------     --------------------------------- 

(The French layout is completely arbitrary, except for c, and e', which
are in the same place as on a French-Canadian typewriter, if I am not
mistaken)

Since there is no agreement for the placement of "alien :-)" characters, I
chose to put them all at the same place, where they would be easy to hunt and
peck.

I do not mind the three keys between "L" and return, if return is big enough
to be hit with boxing gloves.  This layout puts <escape> back where it
belongs, left of 1, and also allows for symmetrical <control> and <compose>
keys, on both side of the space bar.
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