PUNCTUATION

[Marla Sharp]

Is there a way to make the cursor move a word to the right after entering a comma?

[Brenda Rogers]

I'm confused. You should be at the word to the right when you enter the comma already. You don't need to be in the space. Or am I even more confused?

[Marla Sharp]

When at the beginning of the word that I want the comma to appear before, I hit the comma button, and it enters a comma right there and the cursor stays there. In StenoCAT, the cursor would move to the next word after you entered a comma, which is helpful when you have a series that you want to enter commas between.

Example: "I had cherry blueberry and apple." If I have my cursor on "blueberry" and enter a comma, a comma will show up after "cherry," but the cursor will stay in the same spot after I enter the comma. I want it to go to "and" so that I can just hit the comma button twice without having to move my cursor. Does that make sense?

[Jenny Griffin, RMR CRR CCRR CRC]

Yes, the comma will just sit there. Did you know when in hyperkeys, you can be right in the middle of a word and hit the comma? You don't have to be on the first letter of the word.

I have an editing macro that searches for the next "and" and then puts the comma in. If there is a comma already in front of the next "and," it will remove the comma.

I have a similar macro that does the same for the words "but" and "or" too!

[Brenda Rogers]

Can you make a macro? Reprogram the comma to ", Word right"? I don't know if that will mess anything up or not. If it's only for hyperkeys, I wouldn't think so.

[Brenda Rogers]

DON'T DO THIS!
Not only does it not work, when you try to delete the goofy, not working entry, it disables your comma in hyperkeys.

[Anne Brownell]

"L" jumps a word to the right. Or I hit "M" in hyperkeys, however many words you want to highlight - one, two, or a clause -- and then I hit the comma and it surrounds the word/phrase, etc.

[Brenda Rogers]

Ang, I tried it without the second comma, because you wouldn't always want a second comma; you might just want to move to the next word.

As I posted, it disabled my comma, but what I had forgotten to say, when I hit the comma after creating the macro, it froze up my program, my cursor, and I had to Ctrl-Alt-Delete out of it.

Any idea what I did wrong? I went to Macros, New, added
,
Word right

and assigned "," as my hyperkey.

[Brenda Rogers]

Ah, I think I get it. Just want to make sure. It won't work the way Marla wants, which is just to use a comma and move to the right; you need to use a different speed key, and you chose Shift+F9.

Personally, if I'm going to use two keystrokes anyway, I'd rather do comma L than to try to learn a different hyperkey for such a basic function. But if one wanted to have combos for two commas, three commas, that could be worthwhile!

I punctuate so much while I'm writing (almost to my detriment), it's not such a big deal. I just wanted to see if it would work! :)

Thanks for playing around with this, Ang.

[Kyung]

Uh, I think you guys might be trying to reinvent the wheel. The comma is a macro that's already built into Total Eclipse. So go to your user settings, edit tab, macro, buttons, and scroll on the macro you want to edit (in this case, I think it would be the type comma command), highlight it, and then edit. Just add the move right one word command.

Of course, looking at what I just wrote, looks highly complicated, and it might be easier to just what you guys are suggesting.

[Marla Sharp]

How do I get Eclipse to stop removing the "s" after the apostrophe when a word ends in "s"? Example: Mr. Bess' dog. Chris's transcript.

I follow the school of thought that, if it's heard, it goes in rather than the other school of thought that anything that ends in "s" only gets an apostrophe.

[Brenda Rogers]

You need to choose which one you want. It won't automatically do both. I like s' so I have that setting. If you want it to be both ways, you need to have two different strokes.

I think it's in the Metadictionary. This is what mine shows:
's={/</"[s]'[]'s}

I think if you take out the [s]' that will do it.

I think there's a simpler way. It was mentioned either on CRF or CR-Net. Might want to do a search for it. Going to the source, CR-Net, with the question will give you the definitive answer from support.

[Marla Sharp]

Thanks, Brenda. What's CR-Net?