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Dvorak Keyboard: Remapping Keys |
The information in this document applies to:
WordPerfect® 5.1 for DOS
Problem
Symptoms: The customer is using a Dvorak keyboard which is a keyboard with the letters in a different position. For example, right now you are using a Qwerty keyboard. (If you look at the first row of letters on your keyboard you'll see "qwerty"). Since WordPerfect uses the Qwerty keyboard, this customer has gone into Keyboard Layout and remapped the keys. This works great with a few exceptions: The colon (:) key needs to be remapped as the capital "S" key. This can be done, but the customer cannot access this capital "S" by using the Cap Lock. The customer must use the shift key. This also happens at DOS. Also, the customer can't remap the Ctrl-; (semicolon) or Ctrl-: (colon) keys. So the customer is unable to use any keyboard macros as Ctrl-S, which is really Ctrl-; (semicolon). Solutions: Beginning with the 01/19/90 release, WordPerfect has the {SYSTEM}keystate~ command. Use {SYSTEM}keystate~&64 to check for Caps Lock. For more information, see the Software Change Notice for that release under Macros/Merge. On page 55 of the manual, WP documents the limitation of Caps Lock as follows: "Caps Lock affects only letters (A through Z)." This is why your customer has difficulty using Caps Lock on the semicolon key. However, Keyboard Layout and macros provide a way to work around this. The customer created a simple macro and assigned it to the semicolon key. The keystrokes below will check to see if Caps Lock is on. If so, when you press the semicolon key, you will get "S". Otherwise, you will get lowercase "s". You also need to remap the colon key to S for situations when Caps Lock isn't on. Here is the macro: {Display Off} {IF}{SYSTEM}keystate~&64~S{ELSE}s{ENDIF} It is not possible to remap the Control-; (semicolon) key. If you look at Option #8 (Map) for Keyboards, it is not possible to remap symbols like the semicolon and colon with Ctrl. This is documented in your WP Reference Manual in the diagram on pg. 343. As you see on the diagram on that page, the customer could use Alt-; (semicolon) for a macro. Although you are remapping the keyboard so that the semicolon and colon are now "s" and "S", the limitations inherent with the semicolon and colon keys remain. |
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