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Originally posted by Haven:
<STRONG>List of Advances in Dwarven Science (LADS) and Dwarven Betterment Projects (DBP). Also Dwarven Acronyms (ADA).
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I can't resist, but now I really want to make a series of increasingly difficult trap sequences, arm them against Dwarves and set loose the community.  "Welcome to the Dwarven Science enrichment centre.  If at first you don't succeed, you fail."

This is a fine .  All craftsdwarfship is of the highest standard.  It is decorated with inlays of  and meances with large spikes of  .  It is engravecd with a picture of a dwarf.  The dwarf is holding up a .

Or you could just read the wiki remap advice which I have shamefully ripped from another remapping thread which is current:
http://dwarf.lendemaindeveille.com/index.php/Key_bindings  Key Bindings on wiki

Use the numpad +/-, available on MacBooks & MacBookPros with [fn].

I remapped +/- to [ ] and shift-+/- to shift [ ], and have been very happy  .

Oh great ones, the port rocketh most highly.

However, being used to a variety of interfaces, DF's interface is, uh, well there's a bug logged about it, but its status is future.

I note, for example, the following systems of movement / resizing (in today's world, equivalent tasks).  Sometimes its legitimate that two would be needed (left pane / right pane).  But in others, like lists, sometimes its -/+ for the left list and arrows for the right.

Types of movement & resizing tools:
wasd
wasdx
uhkm
shift-uhkm (alongside uhkm)
-/+
arrow-keys

Similarly for selection / quantity
space
enter
left/right-keys
-/+

For abort / dismiss
space
enter
F8/F9
tab

Additionally, there are some interesting interface flow issues, sometimes (for instance Dwarf management via [j]obs or nits) abort/dismiss returns to Map, instead of to prior menu.  Other times abort/dismiss returns to prior menu.

Some panes/panels aren't available from logical places.  Found I was incorrect about: [[From Zoom to Dwarf, the option of View Dwarf mood / relationship isn't available, and from View Dwarf the option to zoom to General / Labour assignment isn't available.]]

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But: this is bitching from someone used to the (relatively) integrated and controlled Mac interface, someone who's a Human Interface Guidelines lover, reads Style Manuals for fun, and is into typography.  Learning the DF interface idiosyncracies is possible, but its frustrating on about the same level as obsessive / compulsive stone management.
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[ April 01, 2008: Message edited by: fifelfoo ]