256 keys is still on the large side. Perhaps instead using keys for strokes?
For example. You’d have a key for a horizontal stroke. Press it once and you got ⟨一⟩; press it twice, ⟨二⟩; thrice you’d get ⟨三⟩, and if you press it and then one for the vertical stroke you get ⟨十⟩ instead.
Of course, there are caveats in this approach - you’d need to have a key strictly to end characters. And odds are that you’d need a few keys for the same stroke depending on position (e.g. top horizontal vs. bottom horizontal). Still, I think that it would be more intuitive than to refer to the sound through transliteration, be it using Latin or bopomofo.
lvxferre@mander.xyz 1 year ago
256 keys is still on the large side. Perhaps instead using keys for strokes?
For example. You’d have a key for a horizontal stroke. Press it once and you got ⟨一⟩; press it twice, ⟨二⟩; thrice you’d get ⟨三⟩, and if you press it and then one for the vertical stroke you get ⟨十⟩ instead.
Of course, there are caveats in this approach - you’d need to have a key strictly to end characters. And odds are that you’d need a few keys for the same stroke depending on position (e.g. top horizontal vs. bottom horizontal). Still, I think that it would be more intuitive than to refer to the sound through transliteration, be it using Latin or bopomofo.