Wednesday, August 21, 2024

Shrimple: A Python Dictionary for Orthospelling

Another in my series of cool Plover tricks that I don't (yet?) use personally, but that have become rather popular in the Open Steno Community. If traditional fingerspelling feels too slow, clunky, or laborious to you, you might want to try StenoHarri's Shrimple, a Python dictionary that allows you to fingerspell orthographically using chords. As helpful Plover Discord denizen Hellochap explains:
Basically it allows you to temporarily make your whole keyboard type literally, so like everything just goes to its corresponding letter. usually you have either a starter stroke to activate it, or you combine your first letter with a key like + or 🦐. and then to exit the mode you press S-P or punctuation or a Jeff’s phrase etc. Typically now we just notate whatever you use to enter shrimple with just the shrimp 🦐, regardless of if you use a shrimp key or not, just for funsies.

so in example: 🦐AB/RA/KRA/TKAB/RA/S-P -> abracadabra

And we also have other starter strokes for starting with a capital, or all caps etc.

Ingenious!

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