30. The UR Keyboard
| For now 50 years these rather compact keyboards are found on any technological material in the UR. Indeed making its first appearance on the first "typographers" (typewriters), then on the automatic telegraphic apparatuses, the UR keyboard is the major input interface of all Polygraphs even at the time of the Global Polygraphic Network. What makes it universal is the fact that the Latin letters are in the traditional order on the keyboard, thus the educated user learns more quickly the positions. One will note however the absence of the letters incompatible with the Extended Republican Alphabet : like [ Q ; q ] and all regional alternative letters of the Latin script. One
can easily understands why regional scripts gradually abandoned, what
the UR phonetists name "their calligraphic decorations",
to adopt the Extended Republican Alphabet. The UR phonetists proposing
even to transcribe Asian tone languages like those spoken in Indo-China
with the ERA. |
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How to use this keyboard : I want to type "a", I only type the [ A ] key, obtaining the lower case. Thus one can generalize by saying that by typing a key of character alone, one obtains the symbol of the bottom left (or lowercase letter). I want to type "A", I keep the [ Capital ] key pressed while I type the [ A ] key, obtaining the capital letter. In the same way one can generalize by saying as by keeping the capital key pressed and by typing a character key, one obtains the symbol in top left. It will be noted that if the capital key is released after having typed an [ A ], it goes back in lower case, if it is released beforen, the keyboard stays in uper case (until it is struck again). I want to type a "1", I keep the [ Numerical ] key pressed then I type the [ E ] key, obtaining the figure. In the same way one can generalize by saying : by keeping the numerical key pressed and by typing a character key, one obtains the symbol in bottom right. It will be noted that if the numerical key is released after having typed the [ E ], it goes back in lower case, if it is released before the keyboard stays in numeric case (until it is struck again). I want to type a "&", I keep the [ Capital ] and [ Numerical ] (= [ Alternate ]) keys pressed, then I type the key [ J ], one obtains "&". In the same way one can generalize by saying : by keeping the two keys pressed and by typing a character key, one obtains the symbol on the top right. It will be noted that if the keys are released after having typed the [ J ], it goes back in lower case, if they are released before the keyboard stays in alternate case (until it is struck again). I want to launch a saved function : I keep the [ Function ] key pressed, and I type the keys necessary to obtain the character with which the function is associated. Note
that the Accents, Tonic Stressings, and Tone keys place their diacritic
character above or under the character preceding them. |
