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* planck with a not-quite-neo layout for a de-DE OS/SW keymap * ergodox infinity with a not-quite-neo layout for a de-DE OS/SW keymap * add documentation
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# not-quite-neo
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This is my personal take on porting the [neo2 layout](https://www.neo-layout.org/) to support both a ergodox (infinity) and a planck keyboard. Some sacrifices needed to be made, hence this layout is not-quite-neo.
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## Use case
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My use case is simple:
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* I want to use neo2 (or a keymap as close as possible) on any computer I can plug my keyboards in. Because installing the neo2 SW driver is often not a acceptable solution.
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* Since most computers I work on (colleagues, family, etc.) use a de-DE keymap, I can not use the official neo2 implementation, because it relies on a us layout and I often times do not even posses the administration rights to change that.
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* neo2 makes use of most of the keys of a standard 104 key keyboard, especially for supporting the planck I needed to deviate from the original neo2 layout in order to fit everything I wanted.
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Therefore, I put all reusable code in the users/not-quite-neo directory and created a custom not-quite-neo keymap for the planck and the ergodox infinity keyboard respectively.
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## Pitfalls
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Mind, since neo2 is a SW driver supported layout it offers a lot of features that are hard to support in hardware (especially the fancy utf stuff with math symbols and greek letters etc.).
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Right now this implementation only incompletely supports neo2 layers 1 to 4.
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The biggest difference is probably the support for the German Umlauts ä, ö, ü and the ß. Since we rely on a smaller number of keys some glyphs needed to be created otherwise. See the implementation in [nqn-basic-layout.h](nqn-basic-layout.h) for details.
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## Keyboards and keymaps
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You can find the *not-quite-neo* keymap for the ergodox infinity under [qmk_firmware/keyboards/ergodox_infinity/keymaps/not-quite-neo/](../../keyboards/ergodox_infinity/keymaps/not-quite-neo/readme.md). Respectively the keymap for the planck resides in [qmk_firmware/keyboards/planck/keymaps/not-quite-neo/](../../keyboards/planck/keymaps/not-quite-neo/readme.md)
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