... Or you could just add a dictionary entry for PER/SWAIGS/S-P that translates "perfect situation"
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Hey guys.I've been doing some intensive steno practice recently and something occurred to me that I think would be an awesome feature in Plover. I call it "retrospective commands".Word boundary issues... Don't they suck? I find they really interrupt my flow and I believe it's something that even veteran stenographers sometimes have issues with.Some examples of what I mean:User wants to write "feedback" but it's not in his dictionary so it comes out as "feed back". Now he has to press asterisk, write a "delete space" command and then write "back" again. This is 3 strokes to correct the problem.
User wants to write "perfect situation". PER = perfect, SWAIGS = situation. He writes PER/SWAIGS but it comes out as "persuasion". Now he has to press asterisk, write a "insert space" command and then write "situation" again. This is 3 strokes to correct the problem.
What I suggest is adding "retrospective commands" to Plover so once you see the problem in your writing, you can insert the space etc.. retrospectively like this:User writes "feed" and "back" and sees it come out as "feed back", user strokes the command for "retrospectively delete space" and Plover removes a space from before the previous word. What the user sees is that they write the "magic stroke" and see "feed back" turn into "feedback" in an instant. 1 stroke to correct the problem.Same with the other example. User writes a retrospective insert space command and Plover converts "persuasion" into "perfect situation" as if by magic :) Again, only 1 stroke to correct the problem and the user doesn't fall behind.I don't know if this is a normal feature in other steno software. I'm thinking it probably isn't.. but why not? I see no good reason not to include it.
I've also seen some users recently (was it Paula?) asking whether they can capitalize a word after they have written it. I think this feature would be extremely useful. The best suggestion to that question was to use Vim's features but what about us who are writing in a web browser, or writing an email in microsoft office, or just waxing in notepad.
I strongly feel this feature should be incorporated into Plover and so I intend to make the change. I think it will make it much easier to write some beautiful looking realtime.
I just wanted to post on here first to make sure there wasn't a really good reason for not doing it and also see if anyone has any other good ideas along similar lines while I'm at it.I intend on making this work with the following commands:Force capitalizeForce lowercaseInsert spaceDelete spaceThe retrospective versions of these commands will have a new syntax so no dictionaries will break and all previous commands work, but people can start incorporating these retro ones into their dictionaries if they want to.Any thoughts?Thanks-Mike-
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I've been away from steno and Plover for a while and ecstatic about seeing Plover's progress. I'm now using it as I wanted to a few years ago. Thanks to Mirrabai, Josh and Hesky and everyone else who has contributed.
@Mike Neal
Wow! The features you've added are excellent, thankyou.
I've just downloaded and tried your new version, joy, I can now delete all my early unused entries and see all sorts of other rubbish that I've defined :).
Which brings me to the quesion.
I'm just wondering about Plover's main development as I've been going back through the posts of the last year or so that I've been away and noticed that the dictionary management (along with fantastically useful Steno tray app) were put into Plover several months ago but not released. Is there any info on what's happening there? I know you were involved in the dictionary management according to a post in April, and your post in this thread.
Also, could I make a suggestion for one more retrospective command. Often people will say "twenty three thousand one hundred dollars" the "dollars" comes last but needs to be written first, eg. $23,100. So would it be possible to add another retrospective command to add a dollar sign to the last stroked complete number?
And lastly :) any chance of an extra command in the dictionary editor to move defines between dictionaries. I've started to use a working dictionary at the bottom of the list where new defines go so I can check before moving into the main dictionary. A button to move them would be excellent.
Thanks again to the whole team.
Rob