[Tex/LaTex] Good keyboard layouts for typing (La)TeX

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When typing (La)TeX some keys are used a lot more often then in plain text, especially \, {, }, [, ], $, ^ and _. On most keyboard layouts these keys are rather cumbersome to type. The English QWERTY keyboard is a lot better than the German QWERTZ, but is still far from optimal.

Given that I mostly type mathematical texts in English, what keyboard layout would you recommend?

Bonus points for the following:

  • Ability to type non-English Latin characters, especially German umlauts.
  • Some similarity to QWERTZ or QWERTY as I'm most used to these layouts (I currently use the US-International layout from Linux)
  • Ability to type math symbols directly (Greek letters, \times, etc.)

Best Answer

Since you're asking for german umlauts: There is the Neo layout which is for german language. The wiki sounds rather interesting! There are even pages for TeX. (I have not used it myself, though).

http://wiki.neo-layout.org/wiki/

and

http://wiki.neo-layout.org/wiki/Neo%20f%C3%BCr%20Latex