Monday, November 24, 2014

Two Quick Links

First, a fantastic post on the Plover Aviary by ezyang, detailing the ups and downs of just beginning in steno.

Second, a new dictionary generated by Ted, which allows you to use the "EU" inversion flag on numbers of more than two digits.

Enjoy!
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14 comments:

  1. jasonjNovember 25, 2014 at 3:43 PM

    Hi Mirabai,
    I'm having issues with some of the punctuation strokes on the learn Plover page just not working.

    / OEU does nothing.

    KR-RT does nothing
    ( PREPB types--> paren
    ) PR*EPB types--> PR*EPB

    etc.
    downloaded from https://github.com/openstenoproject/plover

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  2. jasonjNovember 26, 2014 at 7:45 AM

    My plover is working for the most part, just some strokes are not.

    Any help would be appreciated.

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  3. UnknownNovember 26, 2014 at 8:26 PM

    I've just accepted that some of the punctuation strokes mentioned in "Learning Plover" are not in the dictionary for whatever reason. I've used it as an excuse to learn to add my own. It is too bad that the default dictionary doesn't seem to match up with "Learning Plover" though.

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  4. Edward Z. YangNovember 27, 2014 at 3:04 PM

    Charles, jasonj, I think the problem here is you installed Plover prior to fixes to the default dictionary which synchronized it with Learning Plover. When you upgrade Plover, it does NOT automatically upgrade your dictionary (that makes sense, right? After all, who knows what you've done to your dictionary.) But it means that your dictionary might be stale. You can force Plover to regenerate it by blowing away your old config directory, but it's not great since you'll lose any other briefs you added. (Maybe you have to use the latest Git version of Plover too)

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  5. jasonjNovember 27, 2014 at 3:29 PM

    Just reinstalled and getting same issue. Downloaded from https://github.com/openstenoproject/plover/releases for windows

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  6. jasonjNovember 27, 2014 at 3:34 PM

    I deleted the dictionairy then installed latest version.

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  7. jasonjNovember 27, 2014 at 3:48 PM

    dictionary*

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  8. Edward Z. YangNovember 28, 2014 at 2:32 AM

    Okay, maybe the release isn't recent enough.

    Hm... Well, the zip seems to have the entry for slash... Which file did you delete?

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  9. jasonjNovember 28, 2014 at 6:59 AM

    dict.json
    plover.cfg
    plover.log

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  10. jasonjNovember 28, 2014 at 7:00 AM

    i've been testing by trying to type PREPB and PR*EPB for ( )

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  11. jasonjNovember 28, 2014 at 7:07 AM

    perhaps a copy of a proper dictionary file is in order. know where to get?

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  12. jasonjNovember 28, 2014 at 7:13 AM

    Found the entry and tried it. Did not work.

    "OEU": "{/}",

    OEU types nothing for me

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  13. jasonjNovember 28, 2014 at 7:21 AM

    looks like the update did not make it to the windows release. look here
    https://github.com/openstenoproject/plover/tree/master/plover/assets

    and look at this line:
    dict_suffix.json ------> Add symbols from Learn Plover Lesson 7: Non-Letters

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  14. Edward Z. YangNovember 28, 2014 at 12:27 PM

    Ah, I bet that the Windows installer is out of date.

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