![]() It takes a bit of practice to internalize them, but once you do, you'll find that the number bar is an incredibly useful addition to your steno arsenal.Stenography in QMK :id=stenography-in-qmk So that's about all I've got to teach you about numbers. But if you want the digits, you'll have to write the digits manually using the number bar. You can write the words most style guides suggest using words rather than numerals for one digit numbers in speech. I'm afraid that Plover doesn't support this capability, and it's not a high priority for our developers to implement it, so don't hold your breath. One hundred twenty-eight (WUPB/HOEPB/TWEPBT/AET) into 128 Instead they teach students to write everything out in words:Īnd use their proprietary steno software to automatically translate, for example, Now, some steno schools don't teach the number bar at all. S-P corresponds to "insert a space", and OEU is the stroke for to single digit numbers when you want to write years. You can have exactly 1 1/8 pieces of pie. If you want to write numbers or letters that don't stick together, you'll have to insert a space manually. ![]() That will work for any combination of letters or numbers written in a row. Like the letters you use for fingerspelling (A*, PW*, KR*, etc.), they're what's known as "glue strokes", meaning that when they're written next to another glue stroke, they stick together, but when they're written next to a non-glue stroke, a space is added between them as if they were ordinary words. Okay, what about if you want to do numbers longer than two digits? Numbers have a special property in steno. It works for all two-digit numbers not just multiples of 10. When you add EU to any number, it reverses their order. All the necessary definitions are in the Plover dictionary, but if you're using a different dictionary, you'll have to paste in the entries from that file I mentioned above to make it work. Now, this isn't built into Plover it's a dictionary hack. So how do we do multiples of 10 between 60 and 90? Using our friend the inversion toggle. O for 0 comes in surprisingly handy too it means you can do any two digit multiple of 10 in a single stroke:īut wait - what happens if you do O plus a number on the right side? Huh. Using the thumb for 5 gives you a finger for all 9 digits. So in a single chord you can write:ġ23456789 (Number bar, which is usually rendered # in steno code, plus STPHAFPLT)Įt cetera. See, steno lets you write as many numbers in one stroke as you like, but it always renders them in steno order. What about A = 5? And O = 0? Yeah, that seems a little strange, but it actually works quite well. All of the number bar keys are identical, and you can press as many of them as you want at a time, but all that matters is that at least one of them is pressed at the same time as one of the top row letters. The thing with the number bar is that it's basically a toggle switch. If you're using a Sidewinder (with or without laser keytoppers), you just sort of rock the flat pads of your finger down so you're hitting both keys at once with a single finger. ![]() ![]() You don't have to hit the number bar key directly above the letter you want, though that’s usually the easiest way to make it work. You'll notice that if you press both the number bar and another key on the top row of the steno machine (for Sidewinder users, that's any of qweruiop (plus c and v more about that later) combined with any of 1234567890), you get a single digit number. But I realized that there was one last little thing I could teach you before we're really gonna need that feature: Numbers. Hopefully the wait won't be too much longer. Pretty much all the rest of the stuff I want to teach you about steno involves defining your own entries, and currently the text editor-based method of doing that is just too slow and clunky. I've been waiting for the just-in-time dictionary entry feature to be coded, because there's not much more Steno 101 stuff I can write without it in place.
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