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+title: Why I use Bone (and how I did it)
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+tags: typing code ipad
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+Typing is part of our everyday lives. Coding involves text, and if you're not using MSPaintIDE, you probably use a keyboard to enter text. And if the code gets longer, you might see your fingers strained. A few months ago, I someway heard of the Neo layout, which is designed to ease typing in both German and English, and also has more layers containing a lot of exotic symbols such as ⊥ (orthogonal to), ⊂ (subset of), ♀♂⚥ (the gender symbols), and the normal and zero width non-breaking spaces. Every one of the six layers also has three deadkeys, and there is a Compose system (on Windows and Linux), allowing you to set basically every Latin-based character.
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+It is, however, quite different from QWERTY (or QWERTZ, a version of QWERTY enshittyfied for German typewriters), so it requires a bit of learning, and my method, which I can definitely recommend: Go to a coding camp or hackathon, and write your code with that new layout.
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+Setting it up on different systems required a varying amount of effort, ranging from Windows (installing a keyboard driver and copying an EXE to `shell:startup`) to iPad (looking up every single character to create a custom layout in a paid app).
+
+## Windows setup
+For Windows setup, I just followed the official [kbdneo] installation instructions, downloading the Bone versions of both kbdneo and ReNeo.
+
+## Linux setup
+While Neo and Bone are included as keyboard layouts, Neo variants other than Neo2 are hidden away. After a lot of research and giving up, I found that it is simply ... `de bone`. And so I entered that into my Hyprland config, and I saw that it was good.
+
+## iOS setup
+iOS does not support Neo out of the box like Linux does, nor does it support layout drop-ins like macOS or Windows do. (If you can call copying DLLs to System32 and SysWOW64 and installing a registry patch a drop-in). The Neo manual recommended buying [Keybuild] (not sponsored), and using their config. But that config is only for Neo2, and only includes Layer 1 (and a bit of 2), so I wrote my own. It works really well on iPad, but the keys are a bit small. Layer 4 is a bit cut down, but I did what I could. You can download it here: <a href="https://gist.githubusercontent.com/libewa/e62244a567cc235ebd05b18e7d1ea1bb/raw/03c162250065fc631b1cc22ededed78f5e95d0ed/bone.keybuild" download >Keybuild download</a>.
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+## Mac setup
+//TODO
+
+[kbdneo]: https://neo-layout.org/Einrichtung/kbdneo
+[Keybuild]: https://apps.apple.com/de/app/keybuild/id1547174534