5-row-support.md

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Pinchord does not have built-in support for boards with 5 rows on each side, like the sweep.Ortholinear NKRO boards with 2 or more thumb keys and 5 rows should be supported, and out of the box.This would lower Pinchord's hardware constraints, and allow Pinchord to work on the proportionally large number of ortholinear NKRO boards that were not designed for steno, like the sweep.---These boards could be supported by moving `&` above `+` moving `e` to the right `*`, moving `^` to the left asterisk, and making `&/` capitalize the next word.Currently, both the Plover and Javelin implementations reset the capitalization and space suppression state before every stroke (via `{}`), so this behavior would need to be toggleable.This layout would be nearly as feasible and efficient as using Pinchord with a Uni or Picosteno, the only difference being that you have to split capitalization into a prefix stroke (some users want to do this anyway)