Programming tab in user settings

[Marla Sharp]

Any questions about the mysterious, often confusing programming tab in user settings, post them here.

[Dave Stanley]

My understanding is that the macros are in the Keyboard Setup section.

[Jenny Griffin, RMR CRR CCRR CRC]

Thanks, Dave. That makes perfect sense to me now.

[Jenny Griffin, RMR CRR CCRR CRC]

I have spoken before about integral prefixes and suffixes, but I have been adding so many one-stroke briefs into my dictionary lately that I thought I would mention it again.  Here are the steps for simple dictionary entries.  If you know you have a word in your dictionary that you normally two-stroke, but now you would like to do it in one, get in your dictionary, make sure you are in hyperkeys.  Press f for find.  Type the word you want.  Maybe you have several steno entries for the same word.  That's okay.  Get on one that has no ending attached to it. 

 

Click on it and then press Ctrl d to open up this steno emulator.  Now put in your one-stroke steno definition for this word, in the emulator, click okay, and put a checkmark next to suggestions.  See how it automatically puts the correct English word in the box?  That is because you were already on that word. 

 

Now when you press okay, you should also be presented with ending choices if you write with inflected endings.  For example, I just made a one-stroke brief for the word calibrate.  I was presented with five additional one-stroke entries: calibrated, calibrator, calibrators, calibrating, calibrates.

If I did not want one of these entries, instead of clicking on accept all, I would simply click on the words that I do want.

This works so perfectly for me because I have adjusted my integral prefix and suffix steno definitions under user settings/programming tab/integral prefix and suffix steno definitions.  If what you see in there does not make sense to you, get into the manual and do a search for the word "integral."

Here is an older thread that explains this feature also.
http://csrnation.ning.com/group/magnumstenofanclub/forum/topics/dic...

Let me know how it goes.  Get in there and shorten up those words the easy way!