olkb_parts VS wincompose

Congrats to the framework team. This looks really awesome. I am looking to get one for sure. In particular I was extremely excited by the fact that Jack Humbert[1] is prototyping an ortholinear keyboard module[2]. I have 3 plancks and 1 prionic. Love me some Humbert keyboards, and it's an absolute dream to have an ortholinear keyboard on a laptop.

[1] https://olkb.com/

Custom machined! I took the case 3D model from the official planck GitHub and gave it to RapidDirect for machining.

I asked the same question in https://github.com/olkb/olkb_parts/issues/10, figured I'd post here as well.

There are many affordable off the shelf options for the popular layouts and switches including razor keyboards. I'm weird so I have a planck with blank keycaps in addition to other things.

Just for clarification is it bought through https://olkb.com/ or is it from drop.com ? the drop.com one is known to have usb port issues , especially the rev6.x ones.

My first mechanical keyboard was a 40% ortholinear, and I found the Planck fairly early on during my mk adventure. As much as I loved it though, I was disappointed that all the larger (and staggered) keyboards got to live in these really nice cases with fancy mounting styles that helped with the acoustics and feel. The default cases for the Planck keyboard, in contrast ... left a lot to be desired. I wanted those good sounds and feels, while still living among the efficiencies and comforts of a 40s ortholinear. So I made a new case for the Planck that's inspired by the Bakeneko60.

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I also realized that there is no such thing as EOTW pcb after posting this! The pcb I have is just the regular rev6.1. The problem is that the 3Dprinted case I got was made for some previous rev. Probably using this file: https://github.com/olkb/olkb_parts/blob/master/planck/lo-pro-bottom.stl

The oldest known use of the word was on TypeMatrix' web site, at least as far back as 2003 (as far back as the WaybackMachine goes...) but the company had been founded in 1997. Jack Humbert of OLKB ("OrthoLinear KeyBoards") has said that he got the term from there (ca 2014). He is known for popularising the term, but there have been several one-off ortholinear keyboards made by enthusiasts for themselves — and described as "ortholinear" — that I have been able to find from 2008 onwards.

The same setup (case, pcb, plate) is $130 (not including shipping) from olkb.com, but the PCB is out of stock there as well. I took off $10 for the broken screw-in stabilizer mounting hole, plus my price includes shipping, so I feel like this is a fair deal. Feel free to pass if you think it's too high.

Touche compose. Natif sous linux, et sous windows : https://github.com/samhocevar/wincompose

Julia has made symbol input manageable and lets you define infix operators for many of the Unicode symbols that make sense for that. [1] And JuliaMono was designed to support the symbols that Julia does. [2]

I generally do quite fine with my Compose Key configuration, though (even on Windows, where I use WinCompose). [3]

[1]: https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/manual/unicode-input/

[2]: https://juliamono.netlify.app/

[3]: https://github.com/samhocevar/wincompose

On Windows, I use http://wincompose.info/ for all my special-character needs (and use the system compose key on Linux).

na windowsa jest sobie WinCompose

Credit to wincompose's GUI for inspiration, which provides similar functionality on Windows.

I’ve previously used a nice little tool called WinCompose for exactly that. Looks like it’s still going:

http://wincompose.info/

Malgré to, yo recomanda WinCompose o simil si tu es in Windows.

I use WinCompose which gives me the same compose-key functionality that's built into Linux. I've chosen one key on my keyboard to be the Compose key (I use Right-Alt, but you can pick any key that's convenient). Then I can type

Assuming you are on desktop/laptop:

The long-winded way is to use your OS's character map tool: find the glyph you want there and copy+paste. Under Windows 10+ there is the emoji keyboard (hit [win]+;) which also gives access to much more including super-/sub- script characters, which is a little more convenient than character map. Presumably other OSs have similar available too.

Better is to have support for a compose key sequence. Usually build in to Linux & similar, you just might have to find the setting to turn it on and configure what your compose key is. Under Windows I use http://wincompose.info/ and there are a couple of similar tools out there. In any case it is useful for more than super- and sub-scripts: accented characters & similar (áàäæçffñ), some fractions (¼,½,¾), other symbols (°∞™®↑↓←→‽¡¿⸘♥⋘»‱), and configurable too so you can make what you use most easiest to access (and if you are really sad like me you can do something https://xkcd.com/2583/ to type hallelujah too!).