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> I'm new to steno. This article in their wiki is great: https://github.com/openstenoproject/plover/wiki/Stenography-... I don't get why that page doesn't call it stenotypy (as in, on a machine) instead of stenography (as in Pitman, Gregg, Teeline, etc.). Also, I take it that "CAT software" does not refer to computer-aided translation here?

I'm new to steno. This article in their wiki is great: https://github.com/openstenoproject/plover/wiki/Stenography-... It's essentially a chord-based, dictionary-based, short-hand typing. You write by looking up entries in a custom dictionary (a dictionary of syllables for example) by pressing combinations of keys. The stenographer's keyboard has few keys, compared to a QWERTY. You can define your dictionary however you like. This must be extremely good for languages whose phonetics can be directly translated to its ortographics (without semantic or grammatical parsing), because then the dictionary is small and easy to remember. English is not optimal in that sense: e.g. the words 'flower' and 'flour' are phonetically identical. Edit: but then, ML transcription would work great for those languages for the same reason. You could supplement

CamelCase is built in to Plover! [1] symbols work too - they might have less intuitive memorisation, but you don't use that many anyway (unless you're in APL...but that doesn't work with normal keyboards either). You can set up Vim-like navigation e.t.c. too (e.g. [2]), for moving about in code. I haven't tried it. I think however that the benefits of coding with Plover aren't really great enough to justify the huge struggle it would be to get proficient with it. [1] https://github.com/openstenoproject/plover/wiki/Dictionary-F... [2] http://www.openstenoproject.org/stenodict/dictionaries/vim_d...

I haven't tried it, but there is a list of available dictionaries in Plover format [1] including French, Spanish and Italian. As to switching on the fly, I can't see anything in the docs about it - this extension might work? [2] [1] https://github.com/openstenoproject/plover/wiki/List-of-Avai... [2] https://github.com/nsmarkop/plover_system_switcher

I haven't tried it, it looks to me like it doesn't support N-key rollover out of the box which would definitely be a problem. You can try it out but if you wanted to put more serious time into it, I'd highly recommend picking up something more dedicated like the "Georgi" listed here: https://github.com/openstenoproject/plover/wiki/Supported-Ha...

Sorry I was talking about digital. I didn't even know about the pen and paper kind. There are portable devices https://github.com/openstenoproject/plover/wiki/Supported-Ha...