#naginatastyle — Public Fediverse posts

In hindsight, if I had bought the 32-key #FishKeyboard and learnt the #OnishiLayout my #ErgonomicKeyboard journey would have been a bit different.

Instead I’m designing my own 32-key #MechanicalKeyboard(s), learnt #HandsDownPromethium, and am learning the #NaginataStyle Japanese kana #KeyboardLayout.

Maybe not that different?

At the end of this post https://oookaworks.seesaa.net/article/519786424.html 大岡俊彦 suggest that for a #KeyboardLayout layout that's compatible with both English and Japanese, go with the #OnishiLayout https://o24.works/layout/ - but for Japanese, go with his #NaginataStyle or the #TsukiLayout (月配列) http://jisx6004.client.jp/tsuki.html

The sticker surgery to update the labels to match my revised #HandsDownPromethium layout variation went as well as expected. This now matches my #ErgonomicKeyboard (which has blank keycaps).

The stickers do come off pretty cleanly, fingernails are safer if you can get traction - forceps can scratch, and the black coating on the Apple underglow key caps is surprisingly thin.

Comma and period are now semicolon and colon when shifted, needing spliced stickers.

The right index finger top key with the “<“ label is now backspace like #NaginataStyle - rather unusual in the English focused #KeyboardLayout world.

My #ZMK config is at https://github.com/peterjc/zmk-config and the #KarabinerElements version for the laptop at https://codeberg.org/peterjc/kana-chording-ke/src/branch/main/hands-down-on-jis-macbook

I’m pretty pleased how my #KeyboardLayout rendering came out - #HandsDownPromethium for English, and #NaginataStyle #薙刀式 #大岡俊彦 for #Japanese - see https://github.com/peterjc/zmk-config with configuration for the rendering tool https://github.com/caksoylar/keymap-drawer which outputs SVG which you can customise with CSS: