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Re: getting out of LaTeX

Subject: Re: getting out of LaTeX
From: "Peter T. Daniels"
Date: 31 Aug 2006 06:25:34 -0700
Newsgroups: sci.lang
Lee Sau Dan wrote:
> >>>>> "Peter" == Peter T Daniels <grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>     >> On my keyboards, shift and ctrl are quite near.
>
>     Peter> Do you not touchtype?
>
> Yup.  I've been touching typing for 20 years.
>
>
>     Peter> Ctrl is outside the normal range of movement of the typing
>     Peter> fingers, Shift is not.
>
> You're again showing how your lack of imagination limits you.
>
> Who says you MUST press a key with fingers?  I press Ctrl with my palm
> using the  area below my  little finger (when  you hold the  hand with
> fingers  stretched  and pointing  up).   That  minimizes the  movement
> required, allowing  me to press  Ctrl and still  stay on the  home row
> (for the  right hand, it  has to be  displaced sideways a bit  so that
> index finger is now over L key).
>
> In a nutshell, I touch-typing using more than just 10 fingers.

Then you must have a very big Ctrl key. Or a very small hand.

And your English is still deteriorating: "I've been touching typing"?
"I touch-typing"? Your English was superb when you were living in
Germany!


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