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Keyboards with small key caps?
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Salmon Egg
2008-03-17 18:34:57 UTC
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Do other people have the same problem I do with large key caps? I find
that the trend to have most of the area of a modern keyboard taken up
with key caps is leading to typos. It seems that my large fingertips
catch the corners of the key caps to introduce extraneous characters.
Smaller caps, such as were found on old typewriters, would, I believe,
reduce that problem. The way keyboards are built these days, it would be
impossible for fingers to go between two keys in a way to jam key bars
on an typewriter.

I am currently using a keyboard that came with my Mac Pro. It has large
square caps. It would be great to have replacement caps with relatively
small projections in the center for the fingertips while the rest is
recessed below the surrounding surface.

What is out there for me?

Bill
Shawn Hirn
2008-03-18 02:11:27 UTC
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Post by Salmon Egg
Do other people have the same problem I do with large key caps? I find
that the trend to have most of the area of a modern keyboard taken up
with key caps is leading to typos. It seems that my large fingertips
catch the corners of the key caps to introduce extraneous characters.
Smaller caps, such as were found on old typewriters, would, I believe,
reduce that problem. The way keyboards are built these days, it would be
impossible for fingers to go between two keys in a way to jam key bars
on an typewriter.
I am currently using a keyboard that came with my Mac Pro. It has large
square caps. It would be great to have replacement caps with relatively
small projections in the center for the fingertips while the rest is
recessed below the surrounding surface.
What is out there for me?
You do know, you can disable the caps lock key if you want? If you are
using Mac OS X, go into the preferences panel and select "keyboard and
mouse" Click on the "keyboard" tab and then click on the modifier keys
button. Change "Caps Lock" to "no action" and you are all set.

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