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 title: Why I use Bone (and how I did it)
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+date: 2024-12-23 12:59 +0100
 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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 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>.
+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 on iPhone. 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>.
 
 ## Mac setup
-//TODO
+On Mac, the installation instructions have changed recently, and someone made a mistake doing that. You need to download a Bundle file containing Neo2, AdNW and Bone. Then, copy that file to a Keyboard Layouts folder, so one of:
+- `/Library/Keyboard Layouts` for all users
+- `~/Library/Keyboard Layouts` for the current user
+- `/Network/Library/Keyboard Layouts` for network users
 
+Then, log out and log back in, and you should be able to select the layout in System Preferences.
+
+You are not done! Keyboard layouts on Mac can only have 4 layers, so you also need to install [Karabiner Elements], and import the Neo project's [ruleset].
+
+## Further reading
+I got most of my info from the [Neo manual], so, if you want to know more, you should read that.
+
+[Neo manual]: https://neo-layout.org/
 [kbdneo]: https://neo-layout.org/Einrichtung/kbdneo
-[Keybuild]: https://apps.apple.com/de/app/keybuild/id1547174534
+[Keybuild]: https://apps.apple.com/de/app/keybuild/id1547174534
+[Karabiner Elements]: https://karabiner-elements.pqrs.org/
+[ruleset]: https://ke-complex-modifications.pqrs.org/#neo2