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[Thomas Okken]

(01-29-2017 08:01 PM)Massimo Gnerucci Wrote:  A quick reply from Michael!

Nice!

But if I may offer one more suggestion: of course you'll want the shifted letters to be lowercase, but the five keys that now have non-alphabetic characters assigned to them could have shifted assignments as well, e.g. Shift-period for comma.

Something else just hit me: what about digits? Those aren't in the ALPHA menu. Of course the ALPHA menu could be expanded, there's nothing sacred about it having only two rows, but having to use the ALPHA menu to type digits in ALPHA mode is not ideal.

EDIT: I didn't read Mark Hardman's post since we were apparently writing at the same time. It is starting to look problematic to use shift for lowercase. The % and exponent-E could be added to the ALPHA menu, but it would not be a good thing if ASTO, ARCL, and ASHOW weren't on their current keys.