Re: [bug-gtypist] GTypist beginner mode

[Tim Marston]

Hi Felix,

On 10/02/12 21:31, Felix Natter wrote:
>>> Hmm, it's a very important thing: you don't want to learn typing on
>>> a (by default!) tiny terminal window! How about saying:
>>> "If you want to know how to resize the gtypist window, please look at 
>>> the manual in section XXX."?
>>
>> Yeah, ok. I'm not against adding this to the getting started message,
>> but I just couldn't think of a nice, concise way of writing it that
>> would apply to all operating systems and terminal emulators!
> 
> How about a node in the manual which presents a mapping between OS Types
> and resize instructions? I think UNIX/Linux | Mac OS X |
> Windows-default-terminal should be enough for a start.

Yes, that sounds great. (Do we currently support OS X, by the way!?)

> What is left to be done for 2.10 is more or less just the transition to
> GNU gengetopt and adding/integrating the "--beginner" option, right?

OK, I've updated the TODO file (and structured it for emacs todoo-mode).

On a side note, one point in the TODO list caught my eye: do you really
want to work on multi-byte support other than UTF-8 for 2.10? It just
doesn't seem like a high priority!  :o)

-- 
Tim Marston
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