A keyboard primarily accessed by AltGr (right Alt) containing commonly used typographic, Greek, and mathematical symbols in an intuitive mapping. Made by Shyam Bhakta using Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator 1.4.
Unzip and click the setup file to setup.
After installation, you may need to go to Typing Settings > Advanced Keyboard Settings and select the custom keyboard as default.
Find the full key layout screenshot image. Some prominent usage notes:
• Greek letters are mapped to the closest Latin letter key when possible (e.g. AltGr+p: π), and glyphs identical to the Latin are omitted and serve for other symbols. Some symbols that ought to enter your instinctual use are:
… · ≤ ≥ ÷ • ° × ≅ ± ∓ ≈ ≠ ¬ – — ‘ ’ µ ¢ ™ ® ∞ ¹ ² ³ ¼ ⅓ ½ ⅔ ¾
• En-dashes "–" (AltGr+ -) and not hyphens "-" are correctly used with ranges, e.g. 14–16 people.
• Em-dashes "—" (AltGr+Shift+ -) and space-flanked en-dashes " – " are used in cases to replace parentheses, commas, and colons.
• Ellipses "…" (AltGr+ .) are distinct from three successive periods "...".
• Smart/curly single quotation marks " ‘ ’ " (AltGr+ 9/0), which appear curly/sloped in many fonts, are used in good typography over dumb/vertical quotation marks¹.
Enter diacritic marks after the character they need to be applied to. Feel free to modify this keyboard for your diacritic mark needs.
• Acute accent (AltGr+ '): x́
• Grave accent (AltGr+ `): x̀
• Diaresis (AltGr+ "): ẍ
• Macron (AltGr+ ): x̄
• Tilde (AltGr+ ~): x̃
¹ Smart/curly double quotes are not encoded. The layout can be modified to encode them at the shifted positions of the smart single quotes, which currently have ∝ and ≡.