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Misleading Strokes in Plover's Dictionary

Ted Morin edited this page Apr 26, 2017 · 14 revisions

There are some misstroke entries in the Plover dictionary that are very nice (and short) but may cause issues later on, such as with word boundaries.

And

The recommended stroke for "and" is SKP which is arbitrarily chosen as it is comfortable and there is little chance of a word boundary issue. There are some other strokes in the dictionary but they are only to serve as a phonetic alternative under pressure, as "and" is a common word ending.

Con- word

In Plover's theory, it is recommended to use KAUPB to start words beginning with con, and KOPB should only be used for the word "con". However, when you look up a con word in Plover, it will only return misstrokes that contain the KOPB stroke because the prefix doesn't require a dictionary entry.

For example, use KAUPB/KER, not KOPB/KER for conquer.

Other words are not easy to write phonetically because they are to be briefed, such as T-PB → continue.

Hyphen (-)

Mirabai strokes H-PB, which is H-N for hyphen. There is a set of misstrokes that use H-B instead, which is okay to use.

Was

Best stroked WAS or WAZ. The default dictionary has WA → was, which is most of the time all right. However it can conflict in some cases, like WA/TKPWOPB → wagon (not "was gone") and WA/TPHA/SA → wanna sa (not "was NASA").

Your

Best stroked KWROUR, not KWRUR, as KWRUR is a word ending. For example, KHROES/KWRUR → closure versus KHROES/KWROUR → close your.

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