MagicRomak.md

The Romak Keyboard Layout

Romak is a keyboard layout built for Portuguese and English users, with a goal to enhance hand alternation, minimize finger movement, reduce single-finger bigrams, and decrease reliance on the pinky and central columns.

For the regular versions of Romak, including performance analysis, check this other page instead.

Magic Romak

This is a version of Romak 24 that uses Magic Keys to improve the typing experience.

Alpha 1 layer:

     B  M  G          L  O  U   
  D  N  S  T          R  A  E  I 
     F  C  P          *  ,  .   
           ®  Sp   A2 Sf

Alpha 2 layer:

     Q  Qu K          Ô  Ó  Ú
  Y  Z  X  W          Ã  Á  É  Í
     J  Ç  ^          Õ  Â  Ê
           '  _    _  '

® = Repeat Key
* = Magic Key
^ = Reversed Magic Key
Sp = Space
A2 = One Shot Alpha 2
Sf = One Shot Shift

Magic Key

The Magic Key will produce H after consonants and V after vowels.

This is how the Magic Key behaves:

Previous Keys	Output
Consonants	V
␣	H
OS ⇧	H
Anything Else	H

Reversed Magic Key

The Reversed Magic Key does the opposite as the Magic Key, producing V after consonants and H after vowels..

This is how the Reversed Magic Key behaves:

Previous Keys	Output
Consonants	H
␣	V
OS ⇧	V
Anything Else	V

Repeat Key

Usually the Repeat Key will simply repeat the last character, but in some cases an alternate repeat can be used.

This is how the Repeat Key behaves:

Previous Key	Output
H	A
A	H
Y	D
X	Y
J	Á
QU	Ê
ÁÉÓ	X
ÍÚ	V
Ê	.
Ô	L
Ã	O
Õ	E
Ç	OS Alpha 2
'	V
⇧ I	'
Anything Else	Repeat

Implementation

A complete implementation for Magic Romak can be found here.