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openstenoproject / plover

Open source stenotype engine
http://opensteno.org/plover
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native support for disable Plover translation for a single stroke #1464

Closed Josiah-tan closed 1 year ago

Josiah-tan commented 2 years ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

So I went online to find that this feature was not a natively supported command in steno which surprised me so for example: "HL PHRA*EUBL HL WORL" would output "hello HL world" where PHRA*EUBL means Plover disable

Describe the solution you'd like something like KPA which enables the next word to be capitalized as well as something like KAPD which retrospectively capitalizes a word but for Plover disable of course

Describe alternatives you've considered there's a solution to this (for the next word) https://discord.com/channels/136953735426473984/136953735426473984/842168418663792650 and also one in the Plover dictionary examples

user202729 commented 2 years ago

Why make the core more complex? Just make plugins.

Wouldn't a Python dictionary be sufficient? See the example in https://github.com/benoit-pierre/plover_python_dictionary#usage .

KA*PD are actually "just plugins" (they're defined as separate functions and linked together with setuptools entry points), they just happens to be bundled with Plover source code. https://github.com/openstenoproject/plover/blob/master/setup.cfg#L86-L99