Palantype software

I've played around building a converter in tha past, but the format is undocumented. I could probably finish it if I could get hold of a. Maybe I'll open another issue about that? Not that I'm aware of anyway. Most Palan Jedi that I know built their own dictionary and created their own shortforms. So there is only one theory, it allows you to write virtually any word but has a limited dictionary. Of note: there's no number bar. Everything is a dictionary.

I don't have the number strokes yet but I know how to generate them if need be. It seems that the Palantype doesn't have standard "theories" like steno. Rather, the number of keys allows for all sounds to come out of each hand through certain combinations, and it's up to the student to develop their own briefs and shortcuts from there.

SamuelBelli and I had good luck tonight! We got his Palantype working with Plover relatively easily thanks to benoit-pierre 's refactoring of the code base to make systems possible. And here's a sample build for Palantype users. They will need to remove the main dictionaries and replace them with RTF exports of their existing dictionaries.

Morning all. So plover for palan is working well. The only issue I can see is in dictionary, you can only look up words using steno, you can't type in "before" for example and it give you all corresponding matches.

You can only search by inputting raw steno. SamuelBelli has been using it for a couple days now. Skip to content. Star 1. New issue. Jump to bottom. Labels plugin-candidate systems. Notice how the layout tilts with the hands, and the columns are straight, not staggered, to be more ergonomic than a regular QWERTY keyboard. This next picture might raise some questions:.

Notice that we have some duplicate keys in this layout. Notice, too, that all the vowels are in the center. Essentially, there is an order to the keys. After the Palantypist hits all the keys and then lets go, those keys and their order form a sound. Project links Homepage. Maintainers morinted. If you do not own a Palantype machine, you can use an N-key rollover keyboard instead, as outlined in this tutorial. At this time, other protocols are not supported. Common Commands It would be a good time to define some custom commands that make using Plover much easier!

Project details Project links Homepage. Download files Download the file for your platform. I presume it will recognise json format? So many things to try!

Thank you! I've taken a few years out from steno, palan and Plover - just came back to see how things are going, and I find this. Thank you so much, Ted! Mike S. This does look a bit easier than steno, I might restart my quick chord project! I don't mind the accent since I'm from the right side of the pond myself, and there are a lot of entries in there that may be useful some day, but there seems to be no rhyme or reason as to which letters have 'glue' and which do not.

First step today: I made a mini-dictionary that allowed me to write "Hello World" with one key. The next step is to expand it to do proper fingerspelling so that I won't have to go out to an external text editor. Any chance of an option in the dictionary editor to display by steno order of key or alphabetical order of translation?

Is it possible to just finger-spell the vowels vs phonetically stroke them? I might put together a purpose built board for Palantype next week There doesn't seem to be an obvious and complete method of fingerspelling supplied, so I'm writing my own. Start by loading only a copy of user. You won't be able to add translations at this stage. Save the file, open it in a text editor and edit in the translations in the format shown in Learn Plover e. Save the file, load it again, and start building the rest of your dictionary.

That does help. I will start by going through my articles and adding entries based on my everyday word usage for work material. I hopefully I can have my keyboard plates and keycaps here by the end of next week.

I hate trying to learn new systems on a qwerty board because it completely throws me off. For numbers, the palantype layout allows room for a number pad. You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Plover" group. Where did you source your information about Palantype from because I can't find anything! Yep -- that's why I created the website. Most of my information is from Samuel Belli. There's a Palantypist group on Facebook if you want to ask more questions.

Thanks again for this. I think it deserves further development, but I've noticed some oddities while writng a fingerspelling dictionary:.