Support for Melani system in Spanish Plover Spanish MQD last release

[Noelia Ruiz]

Hello:

Yesterday we released version 1.0.4 of a plugin to add support for Melani system with italian keyboard in Spanish. It uses Python dictionaries, json files and another plugin required for using combinations with different translations if they are used to start or not a word. The theory is not documented, just some examples about the API.

We release new versions at least when Python dictionaries are modified.

https://github.com/nvdaes/plover_spanish_mqd

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[Flavio Egoavil]

Hi,

I just starred your repository. This is very interesting work and no doubt having more than one Spanish system for Plover will strenghten the Open Steno project.

I just have a quick question after taking a look: Why does a large part of the dictionary is hardcoded into a .py file instead of residing on a separate JSON file? Is there a particular reason? Just curious.

For example this python file has OVER 9000 definitions:

https://github.com/nvdaes/plover_spanish_mqd/blob/main/plover_spanish_mqd/dictionaries/spanish_mqd_single.py

[Noelia]

Hello, first of all, thanks for starring!
About using Python dictionaries, the reason is that they allow to
borrow lot of entries in json files.
For example, instead of writing:
# Json

"CAsa": "casa",
"CAse": "case",
"CAsi": "casi",
"CAso": "caso",
etc, we have in the Python file "the letters that can be use to write
these words, but they can be useful to type many many other
expressions. We use an algorythm as follows, similar to the algorythm
used by the original Melani system, with the difference that this is
open source and we had to make a lot of tests to know what Melani
system used the Microsoft Access database, in particular a field named
semplice, used for subsets of characters that can be part of a stroke:

def searchKey(dictionary, stroke):
searchKey = stroke[:]
searchKeyValue = ""
lenSearched = 0
value = ""
while len(searchKey) > 0:
if dictionary.get(searchKey) is not None:
searchKeyValue = dictionary.get(searchKey)[1]
if searchKeyValue == "":
searchKey = searchKey[:len(searchKey) - 1]
else:
value += searchKeyValue
searchKeyValue = ""
lenSearched += len(searchKey)
searchKey = stroke[lenSearched:]
if value == "":
value = "{empty}"
return value

Hope this helps

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[Noelia]

Sorry, a mistake: I wrote "what Melani
system used the Microsoft Access database", meaning "how, not what".
Thanks