sammdot/plover-maajik

孖翼粵語速記法Plover插件 / MaaJik Cantonese steno plugin for Plover

MaaJik / 孖翼

MaaJik /ma˥ jɪk̚˨/ (孖翼, "a pair of wings") is a work-in-progress Cantonese machine shorthand theory. This repository contains an implementation of it for Plover, including a system plugin and dictionaries.

Installation

1. Install the plover-maajik package through Plover's Plugins Manager.
2. Restart Plover.
3. Go to Configure > System, and change your system to MaaJik.

Usage

See the documentation included in this repository for a detailed explanation of how the MaaJik theory works.

The base dictionaries are in the maajik/dictionaries directory. Below is the recommended dictionary order:

• user.json – Empty, add your own entries here
• commands.json – Formatting and control commands
• punctuation.json - Punctuation outlines
• briefs.json – Briefs for common words and phrases
• cangjie.json – Cangjie fingerspelling entries
• cangjie.py (optional, requires plover-python-dictionary plugin) – Visual indication of Cangjie code input
• base.json – Phonetic entries

A Steno Explainers infographic of the basic phonetic chords is also available: