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Andrew: I was using QWERTY as a generic name for the "standard" such keyboard. I agree that most of the pain comes from non-letters. I've been hesitant to remap the keyboard for a number of reasons, but perhaps I should give it a try.
José: I wasn't sure. My point, nonetheless, was that reconfiguring one's keyboard to a more suitable TeX-mode needn't involve a great deal of relearning. However, this isn't the place to go into it in detail: I wrote quite an extensive answer at the tex.SX question I linked to (including what, for me, was the killer reason to reconfigure). Indeed, I now have three keyboard layouts: "normal", "TeX", and "bokmål", for when I'm typing in the corresponding language. So long as I remember which I'm in, I find that the "finger memory" works just fine. For example, right now I'm in "TeX mode" so typing \usepackage{lipsum} is as easy as \pi, but typing 123 requires the shift key.
By the way, xkcd is linkable
@David It's certainly technologically linkable, but it has been linked to so many times, that I thought it socially undesirable to do so.
@Kevin: Yow! :)
Somebody's wrong on the internet.
By the way, \bf, \cal, and \scr without brackets now apply the font to the entire display. Further, \bb seems not to be working.
Aren't those demodé nowadays? I think you should all be using \textbf, \mathbf and so on... :)
Yes, of course, and I always start my math with \( and my displays with \[...
Harry, I'm pleased to hear that as it means we don't have to break you of more bad habits.
Relevant links: http://tex.stackexchange.com/q/1166/86 http://tex.stackexchange.com/q/503/86 http://tex.stackexchange.com/q/510/86