I basically just git initted in my plover dir and started committing WIPs
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Introduces ^ to represent a pre-initial schwa.
Requires the plover-stenotype-extended plugin.
A few groups of rhymes so you can see why this might be useful:
| Group | Word | Steno | Pseudosteno | Plover default entries |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| -end | pend | PEPBD | (PEND) |
PEPBD |
| spend | SPEPBD | (SPEND) |
SPEPBD | |
| append | ^PEPBD | (^PEND) |
A(P)/PEPBD | |
| expend | KPEPBD | (XEND) |
KPEPBD or EBGS/PEPBD | |
| extend | ^STEPBD | (^STEND) |
EBGS/(S)TEPBD | |
| -ent | sent | SEPBT | (SENT) |
SEPBT |
| assent | ^SEPBT | (^SENT) |
AS/SEPBT | |
| accent | ^KPEPBT | (^XENT) |
ABG/SENT or ABGS/EPBT or KP*EPBT | |
| stent | STEPBT | (STENT) |
STEPBT | |
| extent | ^STEPBT | (^STENT) |
EBGS/((S)T)EPBT | |
| competent | KPEPBT | (KPENT) |
KPEPBT or KPE/TEPBT or KOFRP/TEPBT etc. | |
| scent | SKEPBT or SKREPBT |
(SKENT) or(SCENT) |
SKEPBT or SKREPBT |
|
| consent | SK*EPBT | (SK*ENT) |
SK*EPBT or KAUPB/SEPBT etc. | |
| -ent | intent | SPWEPBT | (INTENT) |
SPWEPBT or EUPB/TEPBT |
| absent | ^SPWEPBT | (^SBENT) |
AB/SEPBT |
Sometimes the dictionary includes:
- shifty inversions,
such as album ^PWHRUPL
(^BLUM)or abduct ^TKPWUBGT(^DBUKT) - fingery conveniences,
such as elected ^HREBGD
(^LEKD)for canonical ^HREBGTD(^LEKTD)– as per themain.jsonentry AOE/HREBGD(EE/LEKD) misstrokesactually just manual data entry errors at this point- generous brainfarty fallbacks, such as active ^TWEUF for canonical ^TW (core of the activ- word family)
- redundant redundancies that I’ll never actually use but are there for completionism’s sake,
such as upon ^POPB
(^PON) - opinionated briefs, such as pretty much most of the dictionary (I had an example but it slipped my mind)
- or orphans,
such as apple ^PHR
(^PL)because before I got deep into this whole rabbit hole I tried defining it as WAPL although I guess that conflicts with wam so it was cute while it lasted
Sometimes the conceit is stretched to include
any pre-initial vowel if convenient, even if stressed,
such as era ^RA, or if it would be annoying to write out.
But words like efficacy are probably not in scope.
(I’ll move these into caret-stressed.json, okay)
Word families are kept together in the core part of the dictionary, even if one word happens to be stress-initial. For example, illustrate and illustrative.
In development (not really)
Looking for permanent homes for:
- ang-
- abs-/obs-
Tries to use * to more or less resolve conflicts based on an informal hierarchy of differently colored schwas:
- Spelled with a etc. or pronounced with a low-mid vowel or schwa (“schwa”) /ə æ ʌ/ etc.
- Spelled with e, i, etc. or pronounced with a front vowel or i-colored schwa (“schwi”) /i ɪ ɨ ᵻ ɛ/ etc.
- Spelled with o, au, etc. or pronounced with a back vowel or u-colored schwa (“schwu”) /ɵ ᵿ oʊ ɔ ɒ/ etc.
So for example:
- addition ^TKEUGS
(^DISHUN) - edition ^TK*EUGS
(^D*ISHUN) auditionwould be next in line but alas the overworked * key only allows distinguishing one bit of conflict
Another example:
a missionwould be first in line if this phrase were actually needed, but the two worthier words below take more priority- emission ^PHEUGS
(^MISHUN) - omission ^PH*EUGS
(^M*ISHUN)
The farther the vowel is from mid central, the lower the priority:
- elicit ^HREUS/EUT
(^LIS/IT) - illicit ^HR*EUS/EUT
(^L*IS/IT)
But derivations of asterisked words can be unasterisked if there is no longer a conflict:
- allusion ^HRAOUGS
(^LUUSHUN) - illusion ^HRAO*UGS
(^L*UUSHUN) - illusory: both ^HRAOUS/REU
(^LUUS/RI)and ^HRAO*US/REU(^L*UUS/RI)because *allusory isn’t a word
The a lot/allot
and a lot of/aloft conflicts
are resolved by using AU for the latters.
Although per the above, allotment is both
^HRAUPLT (^LAUMT) and ^HROPLT (^LOMT).
Not yet consistent, might try to keep word families together. TODO figure out better efficient/officiate and acceptable/accessible
When relevant, ^ can be written in pseudosteno
as initial a e or o instead.
For example, ^DISHUN → aDISHUN, ^D*ISHUN → eD*ISHUN or whatever.
I guess ^sT for ext ^ST can work too
Contains non-word prefixes such as extens ^STENS to make longer words from parts. For example, extensible does not need to be explicitly defined as it can be formed from extens + -able -BL. (Wait, this is a bad example oof)
Though some entries are arguably independent words,
such as anon ^TPHOPB (^NON)
or admin ^TKPHEUPB (^DMIN),
I put them here due to their intentional function of taking suffixes.
For this reason, these entries are not literally prefixes of the form {blah^}.
Those affixes (prefixes and suffixes) are in *-affixes.json.
Multi-word entries that could be considered part of a more memorization-heavy “phrasing” system.
Half the entries are just short mandatories + ^
that give the word a appended on either before or after,
such as a bit ^PWEUT (^BIT)
or from a ^TPR (^FR)
Highly attested phrasings that seem wholly uncontroversial,
such as akin to ^KEUPBT (^KINT)
or according to ^KORGT,
are in the non-phrasing dictionaries instead.
Shape-based outlines that relied on top S have been redefined with ^ in place of S
Testing ground for some guys I’m trying out, will see how it feels
I mean sure? but probably of little interest until Chordial exists
Cause I really don’t like these defaults.
Also includes some prefixes,
such as zee SAO*E (ZEE)
or ob OB (OB),
but I put them in this file because the intent is entirely
to cover up annoying defaults that confuse me
when typing stroking outlining writing longer words
“Sentence” means sentence-contextual (built-in feature that attaches punctuation to preceding word). Add * to the first four (Period, Comma, Question, Exclamation) for unspaced versions.
I envision ? KW-PL and ! TP-BG as shape-based complements of each other: the shape of KW-PL ascends from left to right like a question’s intonation rising ↗︎, and the shape of TP-BG descends like the inflection of an exclamation falling ↘︎. (See also)
| Code | Command | Spacing | Steno | Shape | Explanation | Plover default |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| {.} | Period | Sentence | TP-PL | ⠈⠁⠀⠀⠉⠀ | middle+ring, also FuLL stoP | yes |
| {,} | Comma | Sentence | KW-BG | ⠐⠂⠀⠀⠒⠀ | low mnemonic for descender | yes |
| {?} | Question | Sentence | KW-PL | ⠐⠂⠀⠀⠉⠀ | shaped like rising intonation, also quasi-p. QUestion Mark |
yes |
| {!} | Exclamation | Sentence | TP-BG | ⠈⠁⠀⠀⠒⠀ | shaped like falling intonation, also quasi-phonetic BanG |
yes |
| {^:^} | Colon | Unspaced | TH-FL | ⠈⠈⠀⠈⠈⠀ | dot pairs, on upper row like . | KHR-PB (CoLoN) |
| {:} | Colon | Sentence | ^P-PT | ⠁⠁⠀⠀⠁⠁ | same but further out | STPH-FPLT |
| {^;^} | Semicolon | Unspaced | KR-RG | ⠐⠐⠀⠐⠐⠀ | dot pairs, on lower row like , | TH-FL |
| {;} | Semicolon | Sentence | SW-BS | ⠂⠂⠀⠀⠂⠂ | same but further out | STPH*FPLT, SP-PT |
| {^…} | Ellipsis | After | SW* | ⠂⠂⠂⠀⠀⠀ | three dots on lower left row | HR-PS (eLliPSis) |
| {^_^} | Underscore | Unspaced | KWR-RBG | ⠐⠒⠀⠐⠒⠀ | low line, middle-ring-pinky | RUPBD (UNDeR) |
| {^-^} | Hyphen | Unspaced | H-F | ⠀⠈⠀⠁⠀⠀ | tiny line across upper row | H-PB (HypheN) |
| - | Dash | Spaced | PH-FP | ⠀⠉⠀⠉⠀⠀ | short line across upper row | H*PB |
| – | En dash | Spaced | TPH-FPL | ⠈⠉⠀⠉⠁⠀ | longer line across upper row | TPH-RB (NdaSH) |
| — | Em dash | Spaced | ^TPH-FPLT | ⠉⠉⠀⠉⠉⠀ | longest line across upper row | PH-RB (MdaSH) |
Left side of the board is mnemonic for “retroactive.”
| Code | Command | Steno | Pseudosteno | Shape | Explanation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| {*+} | Repeat Last Stroke | # | # |
wiki default | |
| {*} | Toggle Asterisk | #* | #* |
wiki default | |
| {*?} | Retro Add Space | #SK | i.e. #SK | ⠒⠄⠀⠀⠀⠀ | horizontal is mnemonic for add space |
| {*!} | Retro Delete Space | 2K | i.e. #TK | ⠘⠄⠀⠀⠀⠀ | vertical is mnemonic for no gap |
| #NOOP | 2K3W | i.e. #TKPW | ⠘⠇⠀⠀⠀⠀ | used for notes-to-self |
Need to add backspace
| Code | Command | Steno | Shape | Explanation | Plover default |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| {^^} | Suppress Next Space | TK-TS | ⠘⠀⠀⠀⠀⠃ | 2nd-furthest columns | TK-LS (DeLete Space) |
| {^^} | Suppress Next Space | TK-LG | ⠘⠀⠀⠀⠘⠀ | both ring fingers | TK-LS (DeLete Space) |
I'm going to change most of these into shape-based briefs
| Code | Command | Steno | Pseudosteno | Explanation | Plover default |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| {*-|} | Retro Capitalize | KPA*D | KPA*D |
+ -D past tense | yes |
| {>} | Next Lower | HRO*ER | LO*ER |
LOwERcase | yes |
| {*>} | Retro Lower | HRO*ERD | LO*ERD |
+ -D past tense | yes |
| {<} | Next All Caps | KPA*L | KPA*L |
CaP ALL | yes |
| {*<} | Retro All Caps | *UPD | *UPD |
UPpercase + -D | yes |
| {MODE:CAPS} | All Caps On | KA*PS | KA*PS |
all CAPS | yes |
| Code | Command | Steno | Pseudosteno | Explanation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| {#Control_L(a)} | ⌃A (like Home on Mac) | ^H*FT | ^H*FT |
* + SH-FT for Home, with ^ for top S |
| {#Control_L(e)} | ⌃E (like End on Mac) | SR*RS | SR*RS |
* + SR-RS for End |
| {#Shift_L(Tab)} | ⇧⇥ | STA*B | STA*B |
Shift + Tab |
| {#Super_L(f)} | ⌘F | KPH-F | KPH-F |
|
| {#Super_L(s)} | ⌘S | KPH-S | KPH-S |
| Code | Command | Steno | Pseudo/Shape | Explanation | Plover default |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| {PLOVER:LOOKUP} | Lookup | HR-FR | ⠀⠘⠀⠃⠀⠀ | both index fingers | PHR*UP |
| {PLOVER:ADD_T…} | Add Translation | PWHR-FRPB | ⠀⠛⠀⠛⠀⠀ | both index+middle | TKUPT |
| {PLOVER:FOCUS} | Show Plover | PHROERB | PLOESH |
PLover SHOW | PHROFBGS |
| {PLOVER:FOCUS}{# Super(Shift(K))} |
Open Word Tray† | PHRORTD | PLORDT |
PLover wORD Tray | |
| {PLOVER:FOCUS}{# Super(Shift(L))} |
Open Spectra Lexer | PHRERBGT | PLERKT |
PLover spEKTRa | |
| =wt_prev_page | Word Tray Prev | #-RB | ⠀⠄⠀⠐⠂⠀ | plugin-suggested | |
| =wt_next_page | Word Tray Next | #-GS | ⠀⠄⠀⠀⠐⠂ | plugin-suggested | |
| =wt_reload | Word Tray Reload | #-RBGS | ⠀⠄⠀⠐⠒⠂ | plugin-suggested |
† To use, patch word_tray_ui.py by adding SHORTCUT = "Ctrl+Shift+K" in class WordTrayUI
Code in plugins/, third-party-dictionaries/, and main.json is not my own.
It’s just version controlled here to record my modifications
in order to prevent any updates from overwriting them.
OERZ TKO WHAFRT TPUBG UPT
^TR-BGS WELG
KR-BGS WELG
- Document repo contents
- Methodology (how I went about finding what words to include)
- Split user.json into phrasing, plurals/edge-cases, prefixes, glaring-omissions
- Add one-liners, scripts, exploratory research (with documentation)
- Dictionary generator/preprocessor
to define e.g.
accustomin terms of ^ +{custom} - If I ever do all that I’ll name my
babytheory plonkver