Typing with Rivo

1.1. Alphabet letters are assigned to each number button as follows:

1.2. To set Rivo to use Rivo alphabet when typing letters, press L3 + L1, 4, 1.

1.3. In Rivo alphabet, 26 alphabet letters are assigned to 9 buttons based on QWERTY to make them easy to locate and turn into muscle memory.

1.4. The 18 letters below are relatively at the same location as QWERTY.

1.5. The remaining 8 letters are just one row above or below the same relative location as QWERTY.

1.6. Letters in each button are sorted according to usage frequency to make them fast to type. For example, the sequence is e, w, q instead of q, w, e at 1. Note that Rivo alphabet requires much less taps per letter on the average than ABC alphabet, which makes typing faster.

1.7. Rivo alphabet is the default layout in Rivo and is recommended over ABC alphabet for typing efficiency and for consistency with diacritic accent marks as well as for mnemonics of commands.

2.1. Alphabet letters are assigned to each number button as follows:

2.2. To set Rivo to use ABC alphabet when typing letters, press L3 + L1, 4, 2.

3.1. Common keyboard symbols are assigned to each number button as follows:

3.2. All the 32 standard keyboard symbols are assigned to 12 buttons in the middle according to similarities in their shapes with numbers to make them easy to locate and remember. Frequently used punctuation marks are the first symbols of buttons to make them fast to type.

3.3. Exclamation mark is at 1 since it is shaped similar to figure 1.
Likewise, question mark is at 2, single quotation mark at 4, double quotation mark at 5, and at sign at 6.
Semicolon is at 7, colon at 8, comma at 9, and period at 0.
Slash and backslash are at 1, tilde at 2, equal sign at 5, ampersand and dollar at 8.
Less-than and greater-than signs are at 4 and 7, respectively, and also are opening and closing brackets.
Opening and closing parentheses are at 6 and 9, respectively, and also are opening and closing braces.
Asterisk, percent sign, and circumflex are at *, and number sign at #.
For the remaining symbols, underscore is at 5, grave at 2, minus, plus, vertical bar symbols at 3.

3.4. When in any text typing mode, press * to set Rivo to the temporary symbol typing mode where all the 32 standard keyboard symbols are assigned to 12 buttons in the middle. Rivo automatically returns back to the previous typing mode after typing of one symbol.

3.5. The period at 0, and the number sign at #, are the only symbols at the buttons; thus, when one of these buttons are pressed after *, the corresponding symbol is typed, and Rivo returns back to the previous typing mode immediately. The other buttons, however, have more than one symbol; thus, multi-tapping selection is necessary to type a symbol at one of these buttons. When the right symbol is typed, you can finish, return to the previous typing mode, and continue typing more by pressing another button including L2 and R2.

3.6. If you don't want to type a symbol right after *, press R1 to cancel the symbol typing mode and return to the previous typing mode.

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