Document Plover 4 for Users in the Wiki

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User Documentation Topics

• [ ] Main window
• [ ] Configuration
  • [ ] Interface
  • [ ] Logging
  • [ ] Machine
  • [ ] Output
  • [ ] System
  • [ ] Plugins (extensions)
• [ ] Built-in tools
  • [ ] Paper tape
  • [ ] Suggestions window
  • [ ] Lookup
  • [ ] Add Translation
• [ ] Managing dictionaries
• [ ] Editing dictionaries
• [ ] Managing Plugins
• [x] Dictionary Format (#525)

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I have written a page on editing the keymap: https://github.com/openstenoproject/plover/wiki/Configuring-the-Machine-Keymap

The dictionary format is now pretty exhaustive: https://github.com/openstenoproject/plover/wiki/Dictionary-Format

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Ellis has suggested organizing the pages by tasks that users want to complete.

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(Possibly include Installing Plover, Opening Plover)

Connecting your steno machine

• Confirming connection
• Enabling connection -- Types of connection
• Disabling connection
• Turning Plover on and off from the keyboard

Writing

• Using Plover with a text editor or other applications
• Difference between steno writing and typing
• Using the strokes meter
• Displaying the Words Per Minute

Using steno dictionaries

• Using the default dictionaries -- Looking up a word in the dictionaries -- Using the suggestions window (this could go under writing) -- About the default dictionaries
• Managing dictionaries -- Adding words to the dictionary -- Editing a dictionary -- Changing the dictionary order
• Switching/changing between different dictionaries -- When you might want to switch/change dictionaries
• Adding dictionaries -- Where to find additional dictionaries -- Adding your dictionary from another Steno program -- Creating a new dictionary from scatch -- About the dictionary format

Configuring Plover

• Configuring the machine connection -- mapping the keys
• Configure the output -- Configure spaces before/after words -- Capitalising words
• Logging strokes and translations
• Displaying the paper tape
• Using plugins
• System

Troubleshooting

• Connecting your machine
• Verifying your dictionary
• Additional Help
• Reporting bugs

Definitions/Reference

• Learning resources
• Key map
• Dictionary Format
• Stroke
• TXBolt
• Gemini
• ProCAT
• Stentura
• Writing
• Typing
• Differences between Plover and Steno CAT software