I tried many keyboards due to RSI but in the end I'm currently very happy with a kinesis advantage, which made me lose a lot of interest in chording keyboards.
In the end, there's nothing in stenotyping that you couldn't do with a regular keyboard. The advantage in stenotyping is not chording per-se (which is used to reduce the number of keys more than anything else), but the input/composition method, which is highly specialized for text (and english text at that).
There's no convenient way to compose arbitrary symbols in a stenotyping machine. In a regular keyboard there are just more keys and thus the requirement for key composition is almost zero (you still "chord" with shift/control/alt if you think about it). More keys = more immediate symbols. On my S90, which is a full-length keyboard, I only have 88 keys with a key travel length of 1.2m! By comparison, I have (more than) 104 keys in 40x20cm right now.
In the end, there's nothing in stenotyping that you couldn't do with a regular keyboard. The advantage in stenotyping is not chording per-se (which is used to reduce the number of keys more than anything else), but the input/composition method, which is highly specialized for text (and english text at that).
There's no convenient way to compose arbitrary symbols in a stenotyping machine. In a regular keyboard there are just more keys and thus the requirement for key composition is almost zero (you still "chord" with shift/control/alt if you think about it). More keys = more immediate symbols. On my S90, which is a full-length keyboard, I only have 88 keys with a key travel length of 1.2m! By comparison, I have (more than) 104 keys in 40x20cm right now.